incongruous
C2
adj
Freq #59925
Meanings
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1
adj
lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
a plan incongruous with reason
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2
adj
Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
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3
adj
Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.
Etymology
From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous.
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Synonyms
incongruitous
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