incompatible Definition
in·com·pat·ible (in′kəm pat′ə bəl)
adjective
- not compatible; specif.,
- not able to exist in harmony or agreement
- not going, or getting along, well together; incongruous, conflicting, discordant, etc.: often followed by with
- that cannot be held at one time by the same person: said of positions, ranks, etc.
- Logic
- that cannot both be true at the same time: said of propositions
- not predicable of the same subject without contradiction: said of terms
- Math. logically contradictory: said of equations or other statements
- Med., Pharmacy not suitable for being mixed or used together: said of substances having an undesirable action on each other or, when mixed, on the body
Etymology: ML incompatibilis
noun
an incompatible person or thing: usually used in pl.
incompatible Related Forms
in·com′·pat′·ibil′·ity noun pl. -·ties
in·com′·pat′·ibly adverb
incompatible Synonyms
incompatible
modif.
incompatible Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- convention: Thus s 114 was not incompatible with the Convention.
- purpose: The information must not be used in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
- notion: These practices are incompatible with the notion of promoting the welfare of the child.
- existence: Social Darwinism is incompatible with the existence of social facts.
- string: This function is incompatible with a strings with embedded nulls.
- democracy: Perhaps it would be more useful to say that any religion, on a literal reading of their scriptures, is incompatible with democracy.
Modifies a noun
- transfusion: The patient had no detectable anti-A and suffered no ill effects as a result of the major ABO incompatible transfusion.
- format: You're the one that's using an esoteric, incompatible format.
- browser: You may need to enable SSL ( Secure Sockets Layer ) within your browser, or you may be using an incompatible browser.
- substance: Control measures include ventilation, avoiding ignition sources, and keeping incompatible substances apart.
- hardware: See Appendix B Linux Incompatible Hardware for specific cards known not to work with Linux.
- interface: And in any new class library you acquire, some other incompatible interface will be used.
Modifying Another Word
- mutually: How do we prevent them to be mutually incompatible?
- fundamentally: This is fundamentally incompatible with the reasons for the American invasion.
- logically: Despite being logically incompatible, these truths are of the utmost factually veracity.
- seemingly: Regardless of the topic, a unified theory, as sated above, seeks to explain seemingly incompatible aspects of various theories.
- inherently: He frequently clashed with Jean-Paul Sartre and others who combined Marxism with psychoanalysis, structuralism and other philosophical currents inherently incompatible with Marxism.
- wholly: Those actions are wholly incompatible with a gift to him of the money that led to their purchase.
Used with adjective complement
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