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Incongruous

//ɪnˈkɒn.ɡɹʊu.ʌs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

    "[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene."

  2. 2
    Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

    "20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness wordnet

Etymology

From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous.

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