INCOHERENT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Incoherent

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnkoʊhˈɪrənt/ Listen

adjective

Incoherent adj.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; said of material substances.

Lacking logical coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected; rambling; of speech or discourse. "The same rambling, incoherent manner."

Exhibiting incoherent (2) speech or thought; of people; as, a confused and incoherent accident victim.

Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.

See images of 'Incoherent'

Etymology of 'Incoherent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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...