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Definitions for incompatible
ˌɪn kəmˈpæt ə bəlin·com·pat·i·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incompatibleadjective

    not compatible

    "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"

  2. antagonistic, incompatibleadjective

    used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect

  3. uncongenial, incompatibleadjective

    not suitable to your tastes or needs

    "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"

  4. incompatibleadjective

    incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification

  5. contrastive, incompatibleadjective

    of words so related that one contrasts with the other

    "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

  6. ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuitedadjective

    not easy to combine harmoniously

  7. discrepant, incompatibleadjective

    not compatible with other facts

  8. inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfittingadjective

    not in keeping with what is correct or proper

    "completely inappropriate behavior"

  9. incompatibleadjective

    used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture

Wiktionary

  1. incompatiblenoun

    An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.

    the incompatibles of iron

  2. incompatibleadjective

    Of two things: impossible to coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing.

  3. Etymology: From French incompatible.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Incompatible

    Inconsistent with something else; such as cannot subsist or cannot be possessed together with something else.

    Etymology: incompatible, French; rather incompetible, as it is sometimes written; in and competo, Lat.

    Fortune and love have ever been so incompatible, that it is no wonder, madam, if, having had so much of the one for you, I have ever found so little of the other for myself. John Suckling.

    May not the outward expressions of love in many good Christians be greater to some other object than to God? Or is this incompetible with the sincerity of the love of God? Henry Hammond.

    The repugnancy of infinitude is equally incompetible to continued or successive motion, and depends upon the incompossibility of things successive with infinitude. Matthew Hale.

    We know those colours which have a friendship with each other, and those which are incompatible, by mixing together those colours of which we would make trial. Dryden.

    Sense I have proved to be incompatible with mere bodies, even those of the most compound and elaborate textures. Richard Bentley.

ChatGPT

  1. incompatible

    Incompatible refers to things or elements that are so different in nature or principles, they are incapable of coexisting, working together, or combining without conflict. It can also refer to substances, elements, or factors that cannot be mixed or used together without negative reactions. It generally connotes a lack of harmony or agreement between people, things, or ideas.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Incompatibleadjective

    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

  2. Incompatibleadjective

    incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines

  3. Incompatiblenoun

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Incompatible

    in-kom-pat′i-bl, adj. not consistent: contradictory: incapable of existing together in harmony: (pl.) things which cannot coexist.—ns. Incompatibil′ity, Incompat′ibleness.—adv. Incompat′ibly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of incompatible in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of incompatible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of incompatible in a Sentence

  1. Evan Greer:

    Facebook's surveillance capitalist business model is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and human rights.

  2. Walter Scott:

    Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  3. Antony Jenkins:

    I regard the behavior at the center of these investigations as wholly incompatible with our values, and I share the frustration of colleagues and shareholders that matters like these continue to cast a shadow over our business.

  4. Sir Isaiah Berlin:

    Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

  5. Jukka Kekäläinen:

    It is likely that gamete-level incompatibility can reduce the chance of conception but may not often completely prevent it, furthermore, gamete-level compatibility does not mean that partners are otherwise incompatible, with respect to their personalities.

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