Search Result for "incompatible":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (9)
1. not compatible;
- Example: "incompatible personalities"
- Example: "incompatible colors"
2. used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect;
[syn: antagonistic, incompatible]
3. not suitable to your tastes or needs;
- Example: "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"
- Example: "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
[syn: uncongenial, incompatible]
4. incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification;
5. of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
- Example: "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
[syn: contrastive, incompatible]
6. not easy to combine harmoniously;
[syn: ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited]
7. not compatible with other facts;
[syn: discrepant, incompatible]
8. not in keeping with what is correct or proper;
- Example: "completely inappropriate behavior"
[syn: inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]
9. used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, n. (Med. & Chem.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + compatible: cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written incompetible.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. [1913 Webster] A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. --Southey. [1913 Webster] 2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. [1913 Webster] Incompatible terms (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See Inconsistent. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "incompatible": abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, autistic, bashful, chill, chilly, clashing, close, cold, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissociable, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, frosty, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, icy, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inhospitable, inimical, insociable, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, mismatched, mopey, mopish, morose, motley, multifarious, negative, nongregarious, opposed, opposite, out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, oxymoronic, paradoxical, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, self-contained, self-contradictory, self-sufficient, separate, separated, several, snug, socially incompatible, strained, sullen, tense, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconformable, uncongenial, uncordial, unequal, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unlike, unsociable, unsocial, unsuited, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
