adjective
- Not compatible.
- usage: "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect.
- synonyms: antagonistic
- Not suitable to your tastes or needs.
- usage: "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
- synonyms: uncongenial
- 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"
- synonyms: contrastive
- Not easy to combine harmoniously.
- synonyms: ill-sorted, mismated, unsuited
- Not compatible with other facts.
- synonyms: discrepant
- Not in keeping with what is correct or proper.
- usage: "completely inappropriate behavior"
- synonyms: inappropriate, out or keeping, unfitting
- Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture. .
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