incoherent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēnsder.
Middle French coherentder.
English coherent
English incoherent
From in- + coherent.
Inflected forms:
form: more incoherent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incoherent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incohærent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not coherent.
pos: adj
examples: When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.
By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.
1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z,
[…] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]
[…] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.
It was as if he was in fear of being swamped, rendered incoherent, by the sheer marvelousness of what he was relating.
The historian […] is a sort of novelist, but one who instead of inventing plot and character is obliged to discover them; who instead of setting characters in motion against one another with foreknowledge of their natures and destinies tries to guess at what often incoherent characters were up to amid a distraction of lies and suppressions.
gloss: Not coherent.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.
That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.
[…] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]
gloss: Not coherent.
pos: adj
examples: At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
[…] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.
I was glad, now, to be out of Karhide, an incoherent land driven towards violence by a paranoid, pregnant king and an egomaniac Regent.
Synonyms: uncoherent
unintelligible
unrelated
disjointed
desultory
jerky
disconnected
discontinuous
Antonyms: coherent
Related words: incoherence
incoherently
Derived words: incoherency
incoherentness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: несвързан
roman: nesvǎrzan
lang: Bulgarian
word: непоследователен
roman: neposledovatelen
lang: Catalan
word: incoherent
lang: Czech
word: nesoudržný
lang: Czech
word: nesouvislý
lang: Danish
word: usammenhængende
lang: Esperanto
word: nekohera
lang: Finnish
word: ristiriitainen
lang: Finnish
word: epäjohdonmukainen
lang: Finnish
word: hajanainen
lang: Finnish
word: sekava
lang: French
word: incohérent
lang: French
word: décousu
lang: Galician
word: incoherente
lang: German
word: inkohärent
lang: German
word: unzusammenhängend
lang: German
word: unlogisch
lang: German
word: unvereinbar
lang: Greek
word: ασυνάρτητος
roman: asynártitos
lang: Italian
word: incoerente
lang: Italian
word: sconclusionato
lang: Māori
word: parure
lang: Māori
word: whakaparure
lang: Māori
word: nakunaku
lang: Māori
word: ngau
lang: Māori
word: nanu
lang: Polish
word: niekoherentny
lang: Polish
word: nieścisły
lang: Portuguese
word: incoerente
lang: Russian
word: бессвя́зный
roman: bessvjáznyj
lang: Russian
word: несвя́зный
roman: nesvjáznyj
lang: Spanish
word: incoherente
lang: Spanish
word: inconexo
lang: Spanish
word: deshilvanado
lang: Spanish
word: descosido
lang: Swedish
word: osammanhängande
lang: Welsh
word: digyswllt
lang: Welsh
word: anghysylltiol
lang: Finnish
word: epäyhtenäinen
lang: German
word: lose
lang: German
word: nicht verbunden
lang: German
word: nicht zusammenhängend
lang: Portuguese
word: incoerente
lang: Russian
word: ры́хлый
roman: rýxlyj
lang: Russian
word: несцементи́рованный
roman: nescementírovannyj