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incongruous, a.|ɪnˈkɒŋgruːəs|
[f. L. incongru-us (f. in-, in-3 + congru-us: see congruous) + -ous.]
Not congruous; the opposite of congruous.
1. Disagreeing in character or qualities; not corresponding; out of keeping; disaccordant, inconsistent, inharmonious, unsuited. Const. with, to.
(Often with mixture of sense 2, stress being laid upon the inappropriateness or absurdity resulting from the want of correspondence.)
1611Cotgr., Incongrue, incongruous, vnagreeing. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 184/2 All the ecclesiastical glue the liturgy or laymen can compound, is not able to soder up two such incongruous natures into the one flesh of a true beseeming marriage. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1667) 5 If its Shape were incongruous to that of the cavity of the Lock, it would be unfit to be used as a Key. 1695Humfrey Mediocria 53 This is a Scheme I look on as incongruous with free reason. 1717Bullock Wom. a Riddle i. i. 8 O Stupidity unparalleled, incongruous to all sense and breeding! 1787G. White Selborne i. 3 The cart way of the village divides..two very incongruous soils. 1821J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. (1871) 191 Here are two new measures of capacity altogether incongruous to the new system. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 203 The number of stamens is incongruous with the lobes of the corolla. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xii, There entered a figure strangely incongruous with the current of their thoughts.
2. Disagreeing or inconsistent with the circumstances or requirements of the case, or with what is reasonable or becoming; unbecoming, unsuitable, inappropriate, absurd, out of place.
1623Cockeram, Incongruous, absurd, disagreeable. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 173 This..is no such incongruous, ridiculous nouell distinction. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xxii. 85 As if a man should be acquitted and yet punished for the same crime, at the same Court, then which nothing is more foolish or incongruous. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. i, I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common Temper of Mankind is. 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. 1842 I. 548 It would be incongruous and absurd, to have the head of the church of one faith, and the members of another. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 267 Most miserable, most incongruous wretch! Darest thou spurn thy life, the boon of God? 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 106 The effect was slightly incongruous.
3. Having parts or elements not agreeing with each other; involving inconsistency or disagreement; not self-consistent; incoherent.
1658T. Wall Charac. Enemies Ch. 43 Their confused and incongruous intermixture of the different parts of prayer. 1788H. Walpole in Walpoliana, Fr. Philos. 50 Surely of all human characters a fanatic philosopher is the most incongruous, and of course the most truly ludicrous. 1880L. Stephen Pope v. 135 The consequent alterations make the hero of the poem a thoroughly incongruous figure.
†4. Gram. Violating the rules of concord; grammatically incorrect. Obs.
1616Bullokar, Incongruous, against rule of Grammar. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers xv. v. (1701) 526 It is incongruous to say vos amas, vos legis, that is you lovest, you readest, speaking to One.
†5. Geom. Not coinciding when superposed.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 180 Of crooked magnitudes, some are congruous, that is, are coincident when they are applied to one other; others are incongruous.
6. Theory of Numbers. Of two numbers: Not congruent; giving different remainders when divided by the modulus: see congruent 5.
1864Webster, Incongruous Numbers. |