incoherent

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Husky's speech was moist, incoherent, and plaintive.

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. adjective Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent: incoherent fragments of a story.
  2. adjective Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner: incoherent with grief.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (4)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • And besides, all of us can actually understand what Shashi is trying to say, which is more than can be said of some others -- incoherent and with impenetrable accents -- that I could name. —  rediff.com
  • Today authentication and authorization are addressed in an incoherent, and often site-specific, fashion on the Internet and the Web specifically. —  Help Net Security - News
  • Nikolaus on Confessions of a Carioca: B033: TEO: theologically incoherent, administratively chaotic, and morally challenged. masternav on Confessions of a Carioca: B033: I am ambivalent about the actions of TEC. —  Stand Firm
  • While some accuse Paterson of keeping his Senate vetting process too secret and at times incoherent, and others regret that frontrunner Caroline Kennedy was not chosen as senator, —  NY1 - Top Stories
  • She was incoherent, as might have been expected, but also scared shitless over something she knows nothing more about than what she's read in the Daily Telegraph. —  The Voice of Today's Apathetic Youth
 

Tags

incoherent hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 106 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French incohérent = Spanish Portuguese incoherente = Italian incoerente; as in- + coherent.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ɪnkəˈhirənt/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

silver · soap-opera · recent · mint · unrequited

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich