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A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
Henry Grunwald

Meaning of "incongruous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCONGRUOUS

incongruous  [ɪnˈkɒŋɡrʊəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCONGRUOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incongruous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INCONGRUOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Congruence

Congruence is the state achieved by coming together, the state of agreement. The Latin congruō meaning “I meet together, I agree”. As an abstract term, congruence means similarity between objects. Congruence, as opposed to approximation, is a relation which implies a species of equivalence.

Definition of incongruous in the English dictionary

The definition of incongruous in the dictionary is when postpositive, foll by with or to incompatible with ; inappropriate. Other definition of incongruous is containing disparate or discordant elements or parts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCONGRUOUS


ambiguous
æmˈbɪɡjʊəs
arduous
ˈɑːdjʊəs
Bourse
bʊəs
congruous
ˈkɒŋɡrʊəs
conspicuous
kənˈspɪkjʊəs
contiguous
kənˈtɪɡjʊəs
continuous
kənˈtɪnjʊəs
deciduous
dɪˈsɪdjʊəs
discontinuous
ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəs
menstruous
ˈmenstrʊəs
monstruous
ˈmɒnstrʊəs
sensuous
ˈsɛnsjʊəs
strenuous
ˈstrɛnjʊəs
sumptuous
ˈsʌmptjʊəs
superfluous
suːˈpɜːflʊəs
tenuous
ˈtɛnjʊəs
tumultuous
tjuːˈmʌltjʊəs
unambiguous
ˌʌnæmˈbɪɡjʊəs
virtuous
ˈvɜːtʃʊəs
voluptuous
vəˈlʌptjʊəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCONGRUOUS

incondensibility
incondensible
incondite
inconditely
inconformity
incongruence
incongruent
incongruently
incongruities
incongruity
incongruously
incongruousness
inconie
inconnu
inconnue
inconscient
inconsciently
inconscionable
inconscious
inconsecutive

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCONGRUOUS

assiduous
contemptuous
discontiguous
disingenuous
fatuous
impetuous
incestuous
inconspicuous
infructuous
ingenuous
innocuous
mellifluous
noncontiguous
perspicuous
presumptuous
sinuous
tempestuous
tortuous
unctuous
vacuous

Synonyms and antonyms of incongruous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCONGRUOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «incongruous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of incongruous

Translation of «incongruous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCONGRUOUS

Find out the translation of incongruous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incongruous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incongruous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不相称的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

discordante
570 millions of speakers

English

incongruous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असंगत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التناقض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несочетаемого
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incongruente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেমানান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

singulier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sepadan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unpassend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

そぐわない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

>어울리지 않는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incongruous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொருத்தமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विसंगत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yersiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fuori posto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

absurdalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непоєднуваного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nepotrivit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανάρμοστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onvanpas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ologiskt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urimelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incongruous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCONGRUOUS»

The term «incongruous» is regularly used and occupies the 81.185 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCONGRUOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incongruous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incongruous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incongruous

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6 QUOTES WITH «INCONGRUOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incongruous.
1
Jerome Bruner
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
2
Henry Grunwald
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
3
Yehudi Menuhin
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
4
John Dos Passos
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
5
James Payn
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
6
Roger Stone
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCONGRUOUS»

Discover the use of incongruous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incongruous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM ...
He considers the status of Singin’ in the Rain as perhaps the first film to be widely embraced as camp; the repackaging of the musicals as nostalgia and camp in the That’s Entertainment! series as well as on home video and cable; and ...
Steven Cohan, 2005
2
An Incongruous Beam of Beauty Over the Gaza Strip
"Through a video installation, a theatrical performance, and this book, Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini narrate the disorienting tragedy of everyday life in Israel and Palestine through the words of David Grossmart, an Israeli ...
Ottonella Mocellin, Nicola Pellegrini, Emanuela De Cecco, 2008
3
Comedy in the Weimar Republic: a chronicle of incongruous ...
Examines why Germans were laughing, and what they were laughing at, as their society crumbled around them.
William Grange, 1996
4
DeJong's the Neurologic Examination
If incomplete it may be congruous or incongruous. A congruous hemianopia shows similarly shaped defects in each eye (Figure 1 3. 17H). The closer the optic radiations get to the occipital lobe, the closer lie corresponding visual fibers from ...
William Wesley Campbell, Russell N. DeJong, 2005
5
Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry
A wide-ranging collection of essays and memoirs about Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), one of the century's great novelists.
Paul Tiessen, 1990
6
Brain Research in Language
and PS sleep, incongruous words showed larger N400-like waves than congruous words, with latencies and topographies similar to the waking N400. ( Brualla, Romero, Serrano, & Valdizán, 1998 reported a similar finding, although with ...
Zvia Breznitz, 2007
7
Distinctiveness and Memory
Finally, bilateral activations, larger for incongruous than ordinary stimuli, have been observed in the vicinity of the intra-parietal and lateral parietal sulci ( Kuperberg et al., 2003; Michelon et al., 2003). This pattern may suggest differential ...
R. Reed Hunt Professor of Psychology University of Texas at San Antonio, James B. Worthen Professor of Psychology Southeastern Louisiana University, 2006
8
Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide
Why are some incongruous experiences amusing and not others? A recent offering by philosopher of aesthetics Ted Cohen addresses this question ("Humor "). He agrees with the incongruity theory and adds his own view of why incongruity ...
Maurice Charney, 2005
9
Antibacterial Pope and Other Incongruous Stories
Nick Cato's first short story collection features a barrage of his bizarro "super shorts" as well as 6 short stories, 2 published here for the first time.
Nick Cato, 2012
10
Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective
Exner system, is an extension of Holt's (1963) differentiation between (1) the combination of two independent and clearly separate objects in an incongruous relationship (e.g., a bear standing on a butterfly), and (2) a combination in which two ...
Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford, William H. Berman, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCONGRUOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incongruous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Lunch with the FT: Beppe Grillo - FT.com
The setting may seem incongruous, given Grillo's image as a foe of Europe's political and financial establishment, but he doesn't seem worried. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
I'm Learning What 'For Worse' Means Before We Even Get Married
But, even deeper, when we argued over how to deal with the dog, I'd feel this nagging fear that it was foreshadowing how we'd be incongruous ... «Jezebel, Jul 15»
3
Tiger Woods set to miss second Open cut as a shadow of his former …
... Jason Day and Louis Oosthuizen, who were making Woods' travails appear even more incongruous. Both made inroads on the leaderboard ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
2015 British Open tee times: Restart scheduled for Saturday after …
ESPN analysts Paul Azinger and Andy North ripped the decision, with Azinger calling it "ridiculous" and incongruous with the seriousness of a ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
5
How a 'Fat' Mirror Helped Me Accept My Body — Finally - Yahoo
And when an image you see everyday is incongruous with the one that's in your head, something has to give—either the way you see yourself, ... «Yahoo Health, Jul 15»
6
Marines' killer spent months in Jordan in 2014, official says …
They were an incongruous presence on the busy pedestrian plaza, where tourists rested at bright red public tables or pulled rolling suitcases ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Recon Jet review: expensive fitness glasses with potential to be better
That's not to rag on the Jet's styling, but to say that the only way for this to not be incongruous is to wear cycling spandex and a crash helmet. «Engadget, Jul 15»
8
Bartomeu Laporta Benedito Freixa Barcelona presidential race …
Spokesman for the board, his job to justify what Rosell did, there is something incongruous about watching him stand alone now, criticise ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
9
Wilco's new album 'Star Wars' available for free | Fox News
... release "The Whole Love." And, even if you're not a Wilco fan, you might still love the album's amazing and hilariously incongruous cover art. «Fox News, Jul 15»
10
Golfers: You've never seen holes like this - The Globe and Mail
Many lesser golf courses feature an incongruous paddock of holes that feel apart from the rest, but that's not the case here. “We tried very hard ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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