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Incoherent

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not coherent.; Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.

    "When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation."

  2. 2
    Not coherent.; Not holding together physically; loose; unconnected. obsolete

    "[…] 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."

  3. 3
    Not coherent.; Not cohering socially, not united.

    "At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unable to express yourself clearly or fluently wordnet
  2. 2
    (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation wordnet
  3. 3
    without logical or meaningful connection wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882. historical

Etymology

From in- + coherent.

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