Meaning of INCOMPATIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | `inkum'patubul
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- [adj] not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- [adj] (computers) incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- [adj] used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
- [adj] not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
- [adj] not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior"
- [adj] not compatible with other facts
- [adj] used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- [adj] not easy to combine harmoniously
- [adj] of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
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| | Synonyms: | | antagonistic, antonymous, clashing, contradictory, contrastive, disagreeable, discrepant, ill-sorted, immiscible, inappropriate, incongruous, inconsistent, mismated, mutually exclusive, out or keeping(p), uncongenial, unfitting, unmixable, unsuited, unsympathetic |
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| | Antonyms: | | agreeable, compatible, congenial, interactive, synergistic | | |
| | See Also: | | different, incompatible, inharmonious, mismatched, unfriendly, unharmonious | |
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\In`com*pat"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + compatible:
cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written
{incompetible}.]
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.
A strength and obduracy of character incompatible
with his meek and innocent nature. --Southey.
2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual
reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
{Incompatible terms} (Logic), terms which can not be combined
in thought.
Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable;
unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant;
repugnant; contradictory. See {Inconsistent}.
\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.
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