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incongruent, a.|ɪnˈkɒŋgruːənt|
[ad. L. incongruent-em, f. in- (in-3) + congruent-em congruent.]
Not congruent; disagreeing, unsuitable, incongruous.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xiii, It shall nat be incongruent to our mater to shewe what profite may be taken by the diligent reding of auncient poetes. 1603Dekker Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 21, I bought them of a penurious cordwainer, and they are the most incongruent that e'er I ware. 1655Fulke's Meteors Observ. 172 Lead is an incongruent and malignant Metal to all others. 1772Sir J. Reynolds Disc. v. (1876) 365 A harsh jarring of incongruent principles. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 168 Things most incongruent to his hereditary stomach. 1893H. Walker 3 Cent. Scot. Lit. I. i. 8 There is the additional improbability of incongruent circumstances. 1940Mind XLIX. 349 Evident empirical facts (i.e., rotational motion and incongruent counterparts) which Newton and Kant designated as rendering the relational theory untenable. 1951A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. (ed. 2) 232 Grammar is, in the main, concerned with linguistic form in congruent function, and treats of incongruent function only in so far as this is building up new forms in which such function will be congruent. 1966Amer. Philos. Q. III. 179/1 Kant made use of incongruent counterparts to establish a theory of space. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 121 When a man's life style is incongruent with the demands of a task he must perform he will experience stress. |