Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

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




Incoherent   /ɪnkoʊhˈɪrənt/   Listen
adjective
Incoherent  adj.  
1.
Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; said of material substances.
2.
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."
3.
Exhibiting incoherent (2) speech or thought; of people; as, a confused and incoherent accident victim.
4.
Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Incoherent" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand, and left Hellingsley in despair. But Oswald overtook him in the park; and, leaning on his friend's arm, Coningsby poured forth a hurried, impassioned, and incoherent strain— all that had occurred, all that he had dreamed, his baffled bliss, his actual ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... only be found in an octavo volume by an anonymous writer, whose incoherent chapters, in language as clogging as a linseed poultice, will for ever hinder the world from knowing her. So it will be interesting to work it up and make ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... mother and Nell, in the light carriage; and kisses, and tears, and little laughy sobs, and words that ran out with little freshets of tears, and unanswered questions, and unasked answers, broken and incoherent; yet all were happy, and all thankful and grateful to their Father in Heaven; and blessings and thanks—many of ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

... more, being so very false. They said that I was gone all alone with Father La Combe, strolling about the country, from province to province, with many such fables, as weak and wicked as they were incoherent and badly put together. We suffered all with patience, without vindicating ...
— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

... thing that just at this juncture baby should see fit to wake and set up a dismal cry, so shrill as to penetrate even to the distant dinner-room. Lady Catheron rose to her feet, uttered a hasty and incoherent apology, and ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com