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incongruently

incongruently

7.5
In a way that does not fit or match something else
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪn.kənˈɡruː.ənt.li/
translation icon : incongruentemente
  • And it is a byproduct of your conscience, your higher self, telling you that you are living incongruently with the man that you want to be.
  • presented incongruently

Examples

  • However, the majority of intermetallic compounds, including RNi2B2C, are incongruently melting.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I do think that this works in some things and some cases, but I have also seen that acting incongruently with feelings can be very problematic.

    Blog text (19)
  • For incongruently melting compounds, the conventional techniques are difficult to use at best.

    Academic text (1998)
  • One of the advantages of solution growth is that it works for both congruently and incongruently melting compounds.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Contrary to our expectations, we also found significant visual influence when height was presented incongruently in the auditory and visual channels. Height is not a very visible feature because tongue placement is hidden behind lip articulation.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The increased auditory error rate was highest for both conditions when the auditory stimulus was presented with incongruent lip-rounding; however, incongruently presented height also led to a change in the response distributions.

    Academic text (2012)
  • It can be concluded that in special cases, where perceptual features are crossed, fusions occur in incongruently presented vowels, similar to the McGurk effect commonly observed in consonants.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The error bars show standard errors; standard errors smaller than approximately 2.5% are not visible. # Figure 5. Percentage of fused responses for the four different audiovisual vowel pairs in the crossed condition, where lip rounding and height were both presented incongruently.

    Academic text (2012)
  • His bright pink shirt looked incongruently bold against the muted background of the office.

  • The elegant chandelier hung incongruently in the rustic barn, drawing everyone's attention.

Synonyms

incongruously
vsincongruently
3 7.9

In a way that seems out of place for the situation

is more general and simply fails to fit or agree with something
anomalously
vsincongruently
1 8.2

In a way that is not normal or expected

focuses on not fitting or agreeing with another thing rather than being merely abnormal
discrepantly
vsincongruently
8.9

In a way that shows things do not agree

means a general failure to fit or agree rather than a comparison between two things

Antonyms

congruently
  • Specialized
5.9

In a way that matches another thing in form or purpose

How Incongruous

bizarrely
12 4.4
incongruently
7.5
strangely
190 3.2
oddly
150 3.4

Surface Forms

incongruently positive

Morphology

incongruently = incongruent (transparent) = in + congru + ent + ly

This is a regular adverb formation from the adjective 'incongruent', meaning 'in an incongruent way'.

Etymology

The word incongruently is made of in- meaning 'not' and congruent meaning 'fit together'. So it describes doing something that is 'out of place' or does not match the rest.