incongruent

incongruent

The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.

b) of or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number

Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.


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  • incongruent — INCONGRUÉNT, Ă, incongruenţi, te, adj. Care nu este congruent, care nu se potriveşte, care nu este în concordanţă cu ceva; nepotrivit, neconcordant. [pr.: gru ent] – Din lat. incongruens, ntis, it. incongruente. Trimis de valeriu, 13.09.2007.… …   Dicționar Român

  • Incongruent — In*con gru*ent, a. [L. incongruens. See {In } not, and {Congruent}.] Incongruous. Sir T. Elyot. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Incongruent — (v. lat.), unpassend, unschicklich; daher Incongruenz, Unangemessenheit, Unschicklichkeit …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Incongruent — Incongruent, lat. deutsch, unpassend; Incongruenz, Unschicklichkeit …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • incongruent — I adjective contradictory, different, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disjointed, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, distinct, diverse, ill assorted, ill matched, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible,… …   Law dictionary

  • incongruent — ● incongruent, incongruente adjectif Se dit d une anastomose, d une fracture, d une articulation qui n ont pas une bonne congruence …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • incongruent — (adj.) mid 15c., from L. incongruentem (nom. incongruens), from in not (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + congruens (see CONGRUENT (Cf. congruent)). Related: Incongruently …   Etymology dictionary

  • incongruent — [in΄käŋ′gro͞o ənt] adj. [L incongruens] not congruent incongruence n. incongruently adv …   English World dictionary

  • incongruent — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin incongruent , incongruens, from in + congruent , congruens congruent Date: 15th century not congruent < incongruent triangles > • incongruently adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • incongruent — incongruence, n. incongruently, adv. /in kong grooh euhnt, in keuhn grooh , keuhng /, adj. not congruent. [1525 35; < L incongruent (s. of incongruens) inconsistent. See IN 3, CONGRUENT] * * * …   Universalium

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