incohærent
incohærent is the archaic spelling of incoherent.
Meaning of incoherent
Adjective
incoherent (comparative more incoherent, superlative most incoherent)
- 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...1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, The Epistle to the Reader
- 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.1888, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, published 1906, page 25
Forms of incohærent
| comparative | more incohærent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most incohærent |
Origin of incohærent
From in- + cohærent.
Questions about incohærent
- What is incohærent the archaic spelling of?
- Incohærent is the archaic spelling of incoherent.
Words near incohærent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incohærent (page history and authors); incoherent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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