incongruent
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˌɪn.kənˈɡruː.ənt/
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incongruente
- The new policy was incongruent with the company's stated values, causing dissatisfaction among employees.
- incongruent conditions
- incongruent stimuli
- incongruent information
And when those two things are incongruent, when they don't come together, they don't match up.
- And when those two things are incongruent, when they don't come together, they don't match up.
- But if something is incongruent, a face mismatches the words, a gesture mismatches the words, a tone mismatches the gesture.
- And it'll take longer for people in the incongruent cards to, to be able to name it.
- This creates a very real risk that transnet gendered individuals who present incongruent IDs will be denied their voting rights.
Examples
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Even late at night, in their bedroom, the incongruent quarrel would continue.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many induction teachers find teacher training and the internship to be incongruent with the daily responsibility of managing an actual classroom.
Academic text (2002) -
And my favorite thing is nothing you talk about or post about seems incongruent with the rest of you.
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I mean, I was raised in a religious background, so, on top of that everything that I heard, it was incongruent with who I knew I was.
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Although the rival powers are united in purpose to eliminate the terrorist organization, they employ incongruent strategies to do so.
Academic text (2018) -
And when those two things are incongruent, when they don't come together, they don't match up.
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Such eclecticism is incongruent with aesthetic standards in many other cultures, a number of which are non-Western.
Academic text (1995) -
But if something is incongruent, a face mismatches the words, a gesture mismatches the words, a tone mismatches the gesture.
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The colors in the painting were incongruent, creating a jarring visual experience.
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His actions were incongruent with his words, leaving everyone confused about his true intentions.
Synonyms
96
4.7
Not staying the same over time and not agreeing with other facts
72
6.1
Showing ideas or statements that do not agree and cannot both be true
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7.4
Not fitting with the things around it and looking strange
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7.4
Not fitting together and often clashing in sound or opinion
Not in agreement with something else
Antonyms
How Congruent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word incongruent comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and congruere 'to come together'. So something incongruent does not fit or match, like two shapes that cannot be placed on top of each other or a person's behavior that does not match their words.