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incompatibly

incompatibly

6.7
In a way that things cannot work or live together
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪnkəmˈpætəblɪ/
translation icon : incompatiblemente
  • The two plans for the project are incompatibly different, making it impossible to merge them.

Examples

  • The software and hardware components were designed incompatibly, resulting in frequent failures.

  • Their lifestyles are incompatibly structured, leading to constant misunderstandings between them.

  • The pool lay flat and still, quietly and incompatibly shining at the quiet sky.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The two realms are incompatibly different and can only interact at the point where the computational neurons contact the conduit neurons.

    Blog text (21)

Synonyms

incongruently
vsincompatibly
7.5

In a way that does not fit or match something else

means they cannot exist or work together and cause conflict

Antonyms

compatibly
1 4.8

So that things can exist or work together without conflict

How Compatible

seamlessly
25 3.8
harmoniously
2 4.1
compatibly
1 4.8
incompatibly
6.7

Surface Forms

incompatibly positive

Morphology

incompatibly = incompatible (semi-transparent) = in + compat + ible + ly

The adverb is formed by the regular addition of '-ly' to the adjective 'incompatible', with no meaningful shift.

Etymology

The word incompatibly breaks into in- meaning 'not' and compatible, which means 'able to exist or work together'. So when things act incompatibly, think of two puzzle pieces that do not fit; they cannot work together and cause conflict.