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inconcinne

inconcinne adjective: dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.

Adjective

inconcinne (comparative more inconcinne, superlative most inconcinne)

  1. (obsolete) dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable
    • You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 183
    • He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages

Forms of inconcinne

comparativemore inconcinne
superlativemost inconcinne

Origin of inconcinne

See inconcinnous.

Questions about inconcinne

What does inconcinne mean?
Inconcinne means dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable.
What part of speech is inconcinne?
Inconcinne is an adjective.

Words near inconcinne in the dictionary

  1. inconceptible
  2. inconceptualisable
  3. inconceptualizable
  4. inconcerning
  5. inconciliable
  6. inconcinne
  7. inconcinnities
  8. inconcinnity
  9. inconcinnous
  10. inconcludability
  11. inconcludable

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