'Incommensurable' definitions:
Definition of 'incommensurable'
From: WordNet
adjective
Impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
adjective
Not having a common factor
Definition of 'Incommensurable'
From: GCIDE
- Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Incommensurable'
From: GCIDE
- Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.] Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. [1913 Webster]
- They are quantities incommensurable. --Burke. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incommensurable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- alien,
- anomalous,
- apart,
- detached,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disjunct,
- disproportionate,
- disrelated,
- dissimilar,
- dissociated,
- exotic,
- extraneous,
- foreign,
- incoherent,
- incommensurate,
- incomparable,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- independent,
- insular,
- irreconcilable,
- irrelative,
- isolated,
- not comparable to,
- of different orders,
- other,
- out of proportion,
- outlandish,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- removed,
- segregate,
- self-contradictory,
- separate,
- separated,
- strange,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unassociated,
- unconnected,
- unlike,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated