Incoherent
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incoherent¹
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Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēnsder.
Middle French coherentder.
English coherent
English incoherent
From in- + coherent.
adjective more incoherent · most incoherent · incohærent
- Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent. When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
- Not holding together physically; loose; unconnected. […] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of n
- Not cohering socially, not united. At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
Similar: uncoherent, unintelligible, unrelated, disjointed, desultory, jerky, disconnected, discontinuous
Incoherent²
noun Incoherents
- A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.
