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Definition of Incompatible

1. Adjective. Not compatible. "Incompatible colors"

2. Adjective. Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect.

3. Adjective. Not suitable to your tastes or needs. "The task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"

4. Adjective. Incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification.

5. Adjective. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other. "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

6. Adjective. Not easy to combine harmoniously.

7. Adjective. Not compatible with other facts.

8. Adjective. Not in keeping with what is correct or proper. "Completely inappropriate behavior"

9. Adjective. Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture.

Definition of Incompatible

1. a. 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. n. 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.

Definition of Incompatible

1. Adjective. Of two things: impossible to coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine chemistry mostly plural) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incompatible

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Incompatible

1. Not suitable for combination or simultaneous administration, mutually repellent. Origin: L. Incompatibilis (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompatible

incomparability incomparable incomparably incompared incompatibilism incompatibilist incompatibilists incompatibilities incompatibility incompatible (current term)

incompatible blood transfusion reaction incompatibleness incompatibles incompatibly incompetant cervix incompetence incompetences incompetencies incompetency incompetent

incompetent cervical os incompetent cervix incompetent person incompetently

Literary usage of Incompatible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"But when a Member-elect held an incompatible office after the meeting of Congress he was held to have disqualified himself (I, 492). ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... a visible and even human appearance, to perform those familiar offices which seem incompatible with the nature and attributes of the Universal Cause. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"Ross thinks the tone of Junius towards the king and Lord Mansfield incompatible with the authorship of “an obscure clerk in the War ..."

4. The poetical works of William Cowper by William Cowper (1853)
"... Die daily; from the touch of fin recede ; Then thou haft crown'd him, and he reigns indeed. 20. SELF-LOVE AND TRUTH incompatible. ..."

5. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the by Raymond Wilson Chambers (1921)
"ABE THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS incompatible WITH THE BEST OF THE POEM? Later students (like the man in Dante, placed between two equally enticing dishes) have ..."

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