What is another word for incongruous?
Synonyms for incongruous
ɪnˈkɒŋ gru əsin·con·gru·ous
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
incongruous
Two or more things that do not fit well together, or are not adapted to each other, are said to be incongruous; a thing is said to be incongruous that is not adapted to the time, place, or occasion; the term is also applied to a thing made up of ill-assorted parts or inharmonious elements. Discordant is applied to all things that jar in association like musical notes that are not in accord; inharmonious has the same original sense, but is a milder term. Incompatible primarily signifies unable to sympathize or feel alike; inconsistent means unable to stand together. Things are incompatible which can not exist together in harmonious relations, and whose action when associated tends to ultimate extinction of one by the other. Inconsistent applies to things that can not be made to agree in thought with each other, or with some standard of truth or right; slavery and freedom are inconsistent with each other in theory, and incompatible in fact. Incongruous applies to relations, unsuitable to purpose or use; two colors are incongruous which can not be agreeably associated; either may be unsuitable for a person, a room, or an occasion. Incommensurable is a mathematical term, applying to two or more quantities that have no common measure or aliquot part.
Synonyms:
absurd, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, discordant, discrepant, ill-matched, inapposite, inappropriate, incommensurable, incompatible, inconsistent, inharmonious, irreconcilable, mismatched, mismated, repugnant, unsuitableAntonyms:
accordant, agreeing, compatible, consistent, harmonious, suitablePreposition:
The illustrations were incongruous with the theme.
Princeton's WordNet
incongruousadjective
lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
"a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
Antonyms:
congruent, harmonious, congruous
Dictionary of English Synonymes
incongruousadjective
Synonyms:
unsuitable, inconsistent, inappropriate, improper, incompatible, incoherent, discrepant, absurd
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List of paraphrases for "incongruous":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6811 | contrary | |
#7392 | inappropriate | |
#12012 | inconsistent | |
#15258 | conflicting | |
#16818 | absurd | |
#17090 | incompatible | |
#22335 | contradictory | |
#24702 | unsuitable | |
#29606 | illogical | |
#53849 | mismatched | |
#55326 | repugnant | |
#65631 | discordant | |
#67555 | irreconcilable | |
#69630 | incongruous | |
#128716 | discrepant | |
#181473 | inapposite | |
#200201 | incommensurable | |
#294990 | inharmonious |
How to use incongruous in a sentence?
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
It is disingenuous to say that this plan is purely economic because it has a political dimension that has implications that are incongruous with the political aspirations, a big part of the $50 billion will go to neighboring states to settle the Palestinian refugees in those countries.
It’s weird because doesn’t that seem incongruous, that it’s the number two cancer death? People don’t discover it until it’s really, really late and they aren’t getting screened.
I conclude that the disputed trades were incongruous and exceptional trades. They were unsuitable for the LIA and I can find no investment rationale for them.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Translations for incongruous
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- غير لائقArabic
- incongruentCatalan, Valencian
- uneinheitlich, ungleich, unvereinbar, unpassend, disparatGerman
- ناهمخوانPersian
- incongruFrench
- 不調和Japanese
- onpassendDutch
- incongruentePortuguese
- неуместный, неподходящийRussian
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