ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Inconcinne

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Inconcinne is an adjective meaning (obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.

Meaning

(obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.

Example Sentences

Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon.
He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inconcinnous, incongruous, incongruitous, disconvenient, unconsonant, incongruent.

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