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in·com·pat·i·ble

(ĭn′kəm-păt′ə-bəl)

adj.

a. Not capable of existing in agreement or harmony with something else: incompatible views on religion.

b. Not capable of living or working together happily or harmoniously; antagonistic: incompatible roommates.

2. Impossible to be held simultaneously by one person: the incompatible offices of prosecutor and judge.

3. Logic That cannot be simultaneously true; mutually exclusive.

4. Medicine

a. Producing an undesirable effect when used in combination with a particular substance: a medication that is incompatible with alcohol.

b. Not immunologically compatible: incompatible blood types.

One that is incompatible.

in′com·pat′i·ble·ness n.

in′com·pat′i·bly adv.

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incompatible

(ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbəl)

adj

1. incapable of living or existing together in peace or harmony; conflicting or antagonistic

2. opposed in nature or quality; inconsistent

3. (of an office, position, etc) only able to be held by one person at a time

4. (Medicine) med (esp of two drugs or two types of blood) incapable of being combined or used together; antagonistic

5. (Logic) logic (of two propositions) unable to be both true at the same time

6. (Botany) (of plants)

a. not capable of forming successful grafts

b. incapable of fertilizing each other

7. (Mathematics) maths another word for inconsistent⁴

(often plural) a person or thing that is incompatible with another

ˌincomˌpatiˈbility, ˌincomˈpatibleness n

ˌincomˈpatibly adv

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in•com•pat•i•ble

(ˌɪn kəmˈpæt ə bəl)

adj.

1. unable to exist together in harmony: incompatible roommates.

2. incongruous; discordant: incompatible colors.

3. (of logical propositions) not true simultaneously.

4. (of an office) unable to be held simultaneously by one person.

5. unable to be mixed together in the body effectively or without causing harm.

6. Usu., incompatibles. an incompatible person or thing.

[1560–70]

in`com•pat′i•bly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	incompatible - not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" uncongenial, incompatible - not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" inharmonious, unharmonious - not in harmony mismatched - either not matched or unsuitably matched different - unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one" compatible - able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple"; "her deeds were compatible with her ideology"
	2.	incompatible - used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect antagonistic
	3.	incompatible - not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" uncongenial incompatible - not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" unfriendly - not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take" unsympathetic - not sympathetic or disposed toward; "unsympathetic officialdom"; "people unsympathetic to the revolution"; "his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic"
	4.	incompatible - incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automatically compatible - capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
	5.	incompatible - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" contrastive antonymous - of words: having opposite meanings
	6.	incompatible - not easy to combine harmoniously ill-sorted, mismated, unsuited mismatched - either not matched or unsuitably matched
	7.	incompatible - not compatible with other facts discrepant inconsistent - displaying a lack of consistency; "inconsistent statements cannot both be true at the same time"; "inconsistent with the roadmap"
	8.	incompatible - not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" out or keeping, unfitting, inappropriate incongruous - lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
	9.	incompatible - used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture immiscible, non-miscible, unmixable - (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing

incompatible

adjective inconsistent, conflicting, contradictory, unsuitable, disparate, incongruous, discordant, antagonistic, irreconcilable, unsuited, mismatched, discrepant, uncongenial, antipathetic, ill-assorted, inconsonant Their interests were mutually incompatible.
consistent, compatible, suited, appropriate, suitable, alike, harmonious, congenial, reconcilable

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incompatible

adjective

1. Made up of parts or qualities that are disparate or otherwise markedly lacking in consistency:

discordant, discrepant, dissonant, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent.

2. In sharp opposition:

discrepant, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent.

Logic: repugnant.

Translations

مُتَعارِضمُتَنافِر، مُتَناقِض

neslučitelnýnesnesitelný

ufordrageliguforeneliguforligelig

unvereinbar unverträglich

ασυμβίβαστος

incompatible

incompatible irréconciliable

összeegyeztethetetlenösszeférhetetlen

ósamrÿmanlegurósamrÿmanlegur, sem fer ekki saman

incompatibile incompatibilit...

charakterių nesuderinamumasnesuderinaminesuderinamų charakteriųnesuderinamumas

neatbilstošsnesaderīgs

inkompatibel uforenlig uforlikelig

geçimsizuyumsuzuzlaşmazzıt

不一致的不调和的

incompatible

[ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl] ADJ (all senses) → incompatible (with con)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

incompatible

[ˌɪnkəmˈpætɪb^əl] adj

[people] → incompatible; [interests, goals] → incompatible; [systems] → incompatible
to be incompatible with (= at odds with) → être incompatible avec

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

incompatible

adj characters, ideas, propositions, temperaments → unvereinbar; technical systems → nicht kompatibel; drugs, blood groups, colours → nicht miteinander verträglich; the drugs are incompatible → die Arzneimittel vertragen sich nicht miteinander; we are incompatible, she said → wir passen überhaupt nicht zusammen or zueinander, sagte sie; to be incompatible with somebody/something → sich nicht mit jdm/etw vertragen; (= not suit) → nicht zu jdm/etw passen; the possession of great wealth is surely incompatible with genuine Marxist beliefs → der Besitz großer Reichtümer lässt sich wohl kaum mit echtem Marxismus vereinbaren

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

incompatible

[ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl] adj → incompatibile

incompatible

(inkəmˈpӕtəbl) adjective

1. (of people) certain to disagree, fight etc.

2. (of statements etc) not in agreement with one another.

ˈincomˌpatiˈbility noun

incompatible

adj incompatible

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But even as expounded by its author it does not explain, and in truth is incompatible with some incidents of, the occurrences related in these memoranda: for example, the sound of Charles Ashmore's voice.

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Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance --aye, chance, free will, and necessity --no wise incompatible --all interweavingly working together.

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George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.

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All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.

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And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.

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As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.

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But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart."

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"Unfortunately," I continued, "owing to your foolish arrangement not to tell each other where you were going and not to write, as being incompatible with Perfect Trust, you don't know where Orlando is at the present moment."

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To maintain that such an event would have ensued, would be to say at once, that the existence of the State governments is incompatible with any system whatever that accomplishes the essental purposes of the Union.

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The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility.

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Though his looks did not please her, his name was a passport to her goodwill, and she thought with sincere compassion of his approaching disappointment; for, in spite of what she had believed herself to overhear in the pump-room, his behaviour was so incompatible with a knowledge of Isabella's engagement that she could not, upon reflection, imagine him aware of it.

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All this he observed with a terror which seemed not incompatible with the fulfillment of a natural expectation.