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单词 incongruent
释义
incongruent
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adj

Something that's incongruent doesn't fit. If you saw your teacher speeding around town in a red sports car, blasting music, this would be incongruent with your image of her as very reserved and studious.
Use incongruent to describe something that's out of place or incompatible, like the orange house among all the white ones, or a primly dressed little girl who tells dirty jokes at the second grade talent show. In math, two numbers are incongruent when, after being divided by the same number, their remainders are different. The Latin roots of incongruent are in, or "not," and congruentem, "suitable or agreeing."
WORD FAMILY
congruent: congruence, congruenter, incongruent+/congruence: congruences
USAGE EXAMPLES
The heads of teams wandered by as fountains gurgled and a light breeze blew through the Omni resort, a setting incongruent with high-pressure negotiations.
Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016)
Until Monday night, that declaration felt incongruent whenever she said it.
New York Times(Nov 08, 2016)
“The character of his service was incongruent with Marine Corps’ expectations and standards,” the Pentagon said earlier this year. 
Los Angeles Times(Oct 21, 2016)
adj not congruent
Ant
congruent
coinciding when superimposed
coincident
matching point for point
identical, superposable
coinciding exactly when superimposed
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