Word Meanings - INCOMPATIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. Incompatible terms , terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn. -- Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing;

Additional info about word: INCOMPATIBLE

Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. Incompatible terms , terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn. -- Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See Inconsistent. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCOMPATIBLE)

• Absonant
• Dissonant
• discordant
• contrariant
• repugnant
• inconsonant
• inharmonious
• incompatible
• inappropriate
• impertinent
• Contrary
• Opposed
• opposite
• antagonistic
• adverse
• inconsistent
• Repugnant
• Hostile
• averse
• reluctant
• unwilling
• irreconcilable
• inimical
• contradictory
• loath
• heterogeneous

Related words: (words related to INCOMPATIBLE)

• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• CONTRARIANT
  Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge. (more info) oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p.pr. of contrarier to
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• ABSONANT
  Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.
• HETEROGENEOUS
  Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• UNWILL
  To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• AVERSE
  1. Turned away or backward. The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden. 2. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend.
• HOSTILELY
  In a hostile manner.
• IRRECONCILABLE
  Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.
• INIMICALITY
  The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• INIMICAL
  1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity. 2. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
• INHARMONIOUSLY
  Without harmony.
• ANTAGONISTIC; ANTAGONISTICAL
  Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• TRAVERSER
  One who traverses, or denies. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.