'Incompatible' definitions:
Definition of 'incompatible'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" [ant: compatible]
adjective
Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect [syn: antagonistic, incompatible] [ant: interactive, synergistic]
adjective
Not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn: uncongenial, incompatible] [ant: congenial]
adjective
Incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification [ant: compatible]
adjective
Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: contrastive, incompatible]
adjective
adjective
Not compatible with other facts [syn: discrepant, incompatible]
adjective
Not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]
adjective
Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
Definition of 'Incompatible'
From: GCIDE
- Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, n. (Med. & Chem.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Incompatible'
From: GCIDE
- Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + compatible: cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written incompetible.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. [1913 Webster]
- A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. [1913 Webster]
- Incompatible terms (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought.
- Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See Inconsistent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incompatible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- assorted,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- chill,
- chilly,
- clashing,
- close,
- cold,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- cool,
- cranky,
- cross,
- departing,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- disconsonant,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disharmonious,
- disjoined,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissociable,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- frosty,
- grating,
- heterogeneous,
- hostile,
- icy,
- immiscible,
- in disagreement,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inharmonious,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insociable,
- irreconcilable,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- many,
- mismatched,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- negative,
- nongregarious,
- opposed,
- opposite,
- out of accord,
- out of proportion,
- out of whack,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- repugnant,
- self-contained,
- self-contradictory,
- self-sufficient,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- strained,
- sullen,
- tense,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- unconformable,
- uncongenial,
- uncordial,
- unequal,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unlike,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- unsuited,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- various,
- varying,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart