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incongruently

incongruently adverb: in an incongruent way.

Adverb

incongruently (comparative more incongruently, superlative most incongruently)

  1. In an incongruent way.
    • The originally Teutophilic narrative veers decidedly in a new direction when an entry from a Francophilic 'American correspondent,' whose language is incongruently lush and hyperbolic, depicts Germans using tactics and combat procedures ...2005, Charles E. Gannon, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of incongruently

comparativemore incongruently
superlativemost incongruently

Origin of incongruently

From incongruent + -ly or in- + congruently.

Questions about incongruently

What does incongruently mean?
Incongruently means in an incongruent way.
What part of speech is incongruently?
Incongruently is an adverb.

Words near incongruently in the dictionary

  1. incongruence
  2. incongruences
  3. incongruencies
  4. incongruency
  5. incongruent
  6. incongruently
  7. incongruities
  8. incongruitous
  9. incongruity
  10. incongruous
  11. incongruously

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