Incongruous

3 definitions found

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

  Incongruous \In*con"gru*ous\, a. [L. incongruus. See {In-} not,
     and {Congruous}.]
     Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of
     harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious;
     inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent;
     improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior,


     action, dress, etc. "Incongruous mixtures of opinions." --I.
     Taylor. "Made up of incongruous parts." --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Incongruous denotes that kind of absence of harmony or
           suitableness of which the taste and experience of men
           takes cognizance.                        --C. J. Smith.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Incongruous numbers} (Arith.), two numbers, which, with
        respect to a third, are such that their difference can not
        be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers
        being said to be incongruous with respect to the third;
        as, twenty and twenty-five are incongruous with respect to
        four.
  
     Syn: Inconsistent; unsuitable; inharmonious; disagreeing;
          absurd; inappropriate; unfit; improper. See
          {Inconsistent}. -- {In*con"gru*ous*ly}, adv. --
          {In*con"gru*ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incongruous
       adj : lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a
             plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior";
             "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
             [ant: {congruous}]

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

  158 Moby Thesaurus words for "incongruous":
     abnormal, absonant, absurd, amusing, anomalous, assorted, at odds,
     at variance, bad, bizarre, clashing, colliding, conflicting,
     contradictory, contrary, contrary to reason, contrasted,
     contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different,
     differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconsonant,
     discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious,
     disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant,
     distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
     diversified, droll, eccentric, fallacious, faulty, flawed, funny,
     futile, harsh, heterogeneous, hilarious, humorous, ill-advised,
     ill-considered, ill-suited, ill-timed, illogical, impolitic,
     improper, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadvisable, inappropriate,
     inapt, inauthentic, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate,
     incompatible, inconclusive, incongruent, inconsequent,
     inconsequential, inconsistent, inconsonant, inept, inexpedient,
     infelicitous, inharmonious, inopportune, invalid, irrational,
     irreconcilable, laughable, loose, ludicrous, mal a propos,
     malapropos, many, motley, multifarious, nonscientific,
     not following, off-color, off-tone, out of keeping, out of line,
     out of place, out of proportion, out of step, oxymoronic,
     paradoxical, paralogical, poles apart, poles asunder, priceless,
     quaint, quizzical, reasonless, rich, ridiculous, risible,
     screaming, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting,
     senseless, separate, separated, several, unapt, unauthentic,
     unbecoming, unbefitting, unconformable, unconnected, undesirable,
     unequal, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhappy, unlike, unmeet,
     unphilosophical, unprofitable, unreasonable, unscientific,
     unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unwise,
     variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, whimsical,
     widely apart, without reason, witty, worlds apart, wrong