Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not congruent.
- adjective Incongruous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incongruous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incongruous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
out of place ,incompatible ,inharmonious , notcongruent - adjective mathematics of or relating to two numbers that have different
remainders when divided by a third number
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not congruent
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Examples
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But in that context of that hotel, it was kind of incongruent to us that it would be guns.
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Isn’t it crazy and kind of incongruent that public broadcasting is so stingy?
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Tell me; how often does the the Chicken Bus arrive in Huehetenago before the bus change to Tapachula and does the bus stop in Mars to pick up the people of the Earwax who never heard anything that seemed incongruent to their isolated view of the universe because they had no desire to do so and no basis for comparison.
Water in Chapala 2009
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At the end of each film, the melancholia of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in King's expertly balances the tortured protagonist's final triumph and The Beatles "Baby You're a Rich Man" underlines the main character's ivory tower isolation at the epilogue of Social; both as equally gripping as they are forcefully incongruent.
James Campion: Anglo-America on Parade James Campion 2011
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Tell me; how often does the the Chicken Bus arrive in Huehetenago before the bus change to Tapachula and does the bus stop in Mars to pick up the people of the Earwax who never heard anything that seemed incongruent to their isolated view of the universe because they had no desire to do so and no basis for comparison.
Water in Chapala 2009
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Tell me; how often does the the Chicken Bus arrive in Huehetenago before the bus change to Tapachula and does the bus stop in Mars to pick up the people of the Earwax who never heard anything that seemed incongruent to their isolated view of the universe because they had no desire to do so and no basis for comparison.
Water in Chapala 2009
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At the end of each film, the melancholia of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in King's expertly balances the tortured protagonist's final triumph and The Beatles "Baby You're a Rich Man" underlines the main character's ivory tower isolation at the epilogue of Social; both as equally gripping as they are forcefully incongruent.
James Campion: Anglo-America on Parade James Campion 2011
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At the end of each film, the melancholia of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in King's expertly balances the tortured protagonist's final triumph and The Beatles "Baby You're a Rich Man" underlines the main character's ivory tower isolation at the epilogue of Social; both as equally gripping as they are forcefully incongruent.
James Campion: Anglo-America on Parade James Campion 2011
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In the smaller mirrored room upstairs an sometimes incongruent selection of pop is provided for the less tech-obsessed crowd.
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The issue that NorthStar has consistently raised is that there is risk to shareholder value engendered by firms that violate their own published business policies with incongruent electioneering choices.
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