Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Incoherent   /ɪnkoʊhˈɪrənt/   Listen
Incoherent

adjective
1.
Without logical or meaningful connection.
2.
(physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation.
3.
Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently.  Synonym: tongue-tied.  "Incoherent with grief"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Incoherent" Quotes from Famous Books



... despatched by District Messenger boys to the other generals. Towards nightfall the replies began to come in, and, having read them, the Prince saw that this business could never be settled without a personal interview. Many of the replies were absolutely incoherent. ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse

... Creation to be carried on. The first result of this would probably be that the force of gravitation would begin to act, while, from what the telescope reveals to us, we may conjecture, that at the same time the whole incoherent mass would be permeated with light and heat, and some, at all events, of those elementary substances with which chemistry makes us acquainted would be developed, and the whole mass, acted upon by the mutual attraction of its several particles, would ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

... ASCENSION OF, an apocryphal book giving an incoherent account of the martyrdom of Isaiah, and a vision he had under the reign of Hezekiah, apparently the origin of the tradition in Heb. xi. 37, about the prophet having ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... be difficult to describe Mr. Hewson's feelings, but his wife's first impulse was to hasten to liberate the prisoner. With a few incoherent words of explanation, she led him into the presence of his master, who, looking at ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... with a speed born of his dementia, hurling himself through the door with a crash of shattered glass and a trail of incoherent ravings. ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org