Meaning | lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness. |
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Examples | - "a plan incongruous with reason"
- "incongruous behavior"
- "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
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Narrower | discrepant, inconsistent | not in agreement / agreement |
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inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping, unfitting | not in keeping with what is correct or proper |
inharmonious | lacking in harmony of parts |
ironic, ironical | Characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is |
Opposite | congruous, congruent | corresponding / corresponding in character or kind |
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Spanish | disparate, incongruente, incongruo |
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Catalan | incongruent |
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Nouns | incongruity, incongruousness | the quality of disagreeing |
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Adverbs | incongruously | in an incongruous manner |
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