Incongruous

Adjective

 * 1) Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
 * 2) * 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ch. 34:
 * [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
 * 1) * 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, ch. 1:
 * Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
 * 1) * 1912, Jack London, A Son Of The Sunm ch. 1:
 * Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

Derived terms

 * incongruously
 * incongruousness

Related terms

 * incongruence
 * incongruent
 * incongruity

Adverbs for Incongruous
ridiculously; fantastically; utterly; grotesquely; painfully; awkwardly; embarrassingly; completely; strangely; oddly; curiously; crudely; pitifully; inexplicably; mysteriously; unpleasantly; unhappily; unreasonably; flimsily; discordantly; inharmoniously; inartistically; noticeably; terribly; highly.

Thesaurus
abnormal, absonant, absurd, amusing, anomalous, assorted, at odds, at variance, bad, bizarre, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrary to reason, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, droll, eccentric, fallacious, faulty, flawed, funny, futile, harsh, heterogeneous, hilarious, humorous, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-suited, ill-timed, illogical, impolitic, improper, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauthentic, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruent, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, inconsonant, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inharmonious, inopportune, invalid, irrational, irreconcilable, laughable, loose, ludicrous, mal a propos, malapropos, many, motley, multifarious, nonscientific, not following, off-color, off-tone, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of step, oxymoronic, paradoxical, paralogical, poles apart, poles asunder, priceless, quaint, quizzical, reasonless, rich, ridiculous, risible, screaming, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, separate, separated, several, unapt, unauthentic, unbecoming, unbefitting, unconformable, unconnected, undesirable, unequal, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhappy, unlike, unmeet, unphilosophical, unprofitable, unreasonable, unscientific, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unwise, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, whimsical, widely apart, without reason, witty, worlds apart, wrong

Etymology
From incongruus:, from in-: + congruus:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Dutch: onpassend
 * French:
 * Japanese: 不調和な(ふちょうわな, fuchōwa)


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: неуместный, неподходящий