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INCOMPATIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not compatible
Example:
incompatible colors
Classified under:
Similar:
antagonistic (incapable of harmonious association)
clashing (sharply and harshly discordant)
contradictory; mutually exclusive (unable for both to exist or be true at the same time)
uncongenial (used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted)
Also:
incompatible; uncongenial (not suitable to your tastes or needs)
inharmonious; unharmonious (not in harmony)
mismatched (either not matched or unsuitably matched)
different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
Antonym:
compatible (able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination)
Derivation:
incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
Classified under:
Domain category:
computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Antonym:
compatible (capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
immiscible; non-miscible; unmixable ((chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not suitable to your tastes or needs
Example:
the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs
Synonyms:
incompatible; uncongenial
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
disagreeable; unsympathetic (not agreeing with your tastes or expectations)
Also:
unsympathetic (not sympathetic or disposed toward)
unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)
incompatible (not compatible)
Derivation:
incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Not in keeping with what is correct or proper
Example:
completely inappropriate behavior
Synonyms:
inappropriate; incompatible; out or keeping; unfitting
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
incongruous (lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Not compatible with other facts
Synonyms:
discrepant; incompatible
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inconsistent (displaying a lack of consistency)
Derivation:
incompatibility (the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
Synonyms:
antagonistic; incompatible
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
antacid (acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach))
antiphlogistic (counteracting inflammation)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Not easy to combine harmoniously
Synonyms:
ill-sorted; incompatible; mismated; unsuited
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
mismatched (either not matched or unsuitably matched)
Derivation:
incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Of words so related that one contrasts with the other
Example:
'rich' and 'hard-up' are contrastive terms
Synonyms:
contrastive; incompatible
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
antonymous (of words: having opposite meanings)
Context examples:
Additionally, some patients have variant forms, where there are features associated with both autoimmune hepatitis and another type of chronic liver disease (overlap syndromes) or where there are findings incompatible with autoimmune hepatitis (outlier syndromes).
(Autoimmune Hepatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other, not at all to represent Captain Benwick's manners as the very best that could possibly be; and, after a little hesitation, she was beginning to say, I was not entering into any comparison of the two friends, but the Admiral interrupted her with—And the thing is certainly true.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
These observations, and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening, were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that Master Micawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddles under the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form incompatible with the general interests of society; and by Master Micawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Your happiness and advantage are all that I have in view, and nothing is required of you but to bear with Mr. Crawford's endeavours to convince you that they may not be incompatible with his.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The discussion of some topics, even with Mrs. Micawber herself (so long the partner of my various vicissitudes, and a woman of a remarkable lucidity of intellect), is, I am led to consider, incompatible with the functions now devolving on me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
