incongruently
- adverb
- /ˌɪn.kənˈɡruː.ənt.li/
- 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
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However, the majority of intermetallic compounds, including RNi2B2C, are incongruently melting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His bright pink shirt looked incongruently bold against the muted background of the office.
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The elegant chandelier hung incongruently in the rustic barn, drawing everyone's attention.
Synonyms
In a way that seems out of place for the situation
In a way that is not normal or expected
In a way that shows things do not agree
Antonyms
How Incongruous
Surface Forms
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.