incoherent
incoherent adjective: not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.
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.
- After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.
- 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
- That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 2, p. 110
- 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
- […] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.1961, James Baldwin, James Baldwin: Collected Essays, New York: Library of America, published 1998, page 223
Noun capitalized: Incoherent
Incoherent (plural Incoherents)
- A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.
incoherent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
incoherent in Hindi
- incoherent
- असंबद्ध asambaddh
incoherent in Tamil
- தொடர்பற்ற, ஒருங்கிணைப்பற்ற, முரணான, தொடர்பிசைவற்ற, முன்பின் தொடர் பில்லாத
incoherent in Urdu
- بےربط, بلامطابقہ, ڈھیلا
incoherent in Bengali
- অসংলগ্ন, অস্পষ্ট
More languagesFewer languages
- incoherent in Malayalam
- പൊരുത്തമില്ലാത്ത, ചേർച്ചയില്ലാത്ത, ഒന്നിനൊന്നു സംബന്ധമില്ലാത്ത, പരസ്പരബന്ധമില്ലാത്ത
- incoherent in Kannada
- ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧ, ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಳ್ಳದ, ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಂಬಂಧವಿಲ್ಲದ
Examples of incoherent in a sentence
- By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.1599, Ralph Brooke, A Discouerie of Certaine Errours Published in Print in the Much Commended Britannia, London, page 35:
- […] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.1908, Henry James, chapter XV, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston...
- It was as if he was in fear of being swamped, rendered incoherent, by the sheer marvelousness of what he was relating.1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, Penguin, published 1988, page 154:
- […] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]1696, John Sergeant, The Method to Science, London, Book 3, pp. 228-229:
Synonyms of incoherent
Antonyms
Forms of incoherent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more incoherent |
| superlative | most incoherent |
| alternative form | incohærent |
| Noun | |
| plural | Incoherents |
Origin of incoherent
From in- + coherent.
Words formed from incoherent
Questions about incoherent
- What does incoherent mean?
- Incoherent means not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.
- What is incoherent in Hindi?
- Incoherent in Hindi is असंबद्ध (asambaddh). See Incoherent meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use incoherent in a sentence?
- By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.
- What part of speech is incoherent?
- Incoherent can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near incoherent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incoherent (page history and authors); Incoherent (page history and authors); असंबद्ध (Hindi) (page history and authors); incoherent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incoherent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incoherent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incoherent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incoherent (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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