Incongruous

Quick meaning: Incongruous is an adjective meaning Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

Meaning

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

[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.

Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.

Synonyms for incongruous

Depending on context, synonyms include incongruitous, absurd, illogical, discrepant, inconsistent, inappropriate.

Antonyms for incongruous

Common opposites include congruent, congruous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inconsistent, incompatible, inharmonious, discrepant, illogical, inappropriate.

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