What is the meaning of incompatible?

adjective

  • Not compatible.
    • usage: "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
  • Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect.
  • Not suitable to your tastes or needs.
    • usage: "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
  • Incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification.
  • Of words so related that one contrasts with the other.
    • usage: "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
  • Not easy to combine harmoniously.
  • Not compatible with other facts.
  • Not in keeping with what is correct or proper.
    • usage: "completely inappropriate behavior"
  • Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture. .
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APAWordNet. (2010). incompatible. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/incompatible/definitions/1176372
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "incompatible" http://smartdefine.org/incompatible/definitions/1176372 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, incompatible, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/incompatible/definitions/1176372>.
MLAWordNet. "incompatible" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/incompatible/definitions/1176372>
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