Incoherent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incoherent \In`co*her"ent\, a. [Pref. in- not + coherent: cf. F.
     incoh['e]rent.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected;
        physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of
        material substances. --Woodward.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Lacking logical coherence or agreement; incongruous;
        inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another;
        logically disconnected; rambling; -- of speech or
        discourse. "The same rambling, incoherent manner." --Bp.
        Warburton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Exhibiting incoherent[2] speech or thought; -- of people;
        as, a confused and incoherent accident victim.
        [PJC]
  
     4. Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incoherent
       adj 1: without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid
              incoherent presentation" [ant: {coherent}]
       2: unable to think or express your thoughts in a clear or
          orderly manner; "incoherent with grief"
       3: unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt
          tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief"
          [syn: {tongue-tied}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  160 Moby Thesaurus words for "incoherent":
     Greek to one, abnormal, absurd, aleatoric, aleatory, aloof,
     ambiguous, amorphous, anomalous, apart, asunder, babbling,
     beyond understanding, bipartite, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
     broken, broken off, chance, chancy, chaotic, chopped-off, choppy,
     confused, decousu, delirious, detached, dichotomous, disconnected,
     discontinued, discontinuous, discordant, discrete, disjoined,
     disjointed, disjunctive, disordered, disproportionate, distinct,
     divergent, dizzy, episodic, fitful, foggy, fuzzy, gapped, garbled,
     general, giddy, hazy, herky-jerky, hit-or-miss, ill-defined,
     illogical, impenetrable, imprecise, in two, inaccurate,
     inarticulate, inchoate, incognizable, incommensurable,
     incommensurate, incompatible, incomprehensible, incongruous,
     inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, indecisive, indefinable,
     indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact,
     inscrutable, insular, intermittent, interrupted, irrational,
     irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, lax,
     lightheaded, loose, maundering, mixed up, muddled, nonadherent,
     nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
     nonsequential, nonserial, nonspecific, nonuniform, numinous,
     obscure, off, open, orderless, out of proportion, oxymoronic,
     paradoxical, parenthetic, partitioned, past comprehension, patchy,
     rambling, random, ranting, raving, scrambled, scrappy,
     self-contradictory, separate, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless,
     snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, stochastic, suspended, sweeping,
     tenuous, tongue-tied, unadhesive, unassociated, unattached,
     unattended, unclear, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected,
     undefined, undestined, undetermined, unfathomable, unintelligible,
     unjoined, unknowable, unorganized, unplain, unsearchable,
     unspecified, unsuccessive, untenacious, vague, veiled, wandering,
     wild