Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent: incoherent fragments of a story.
- adj. Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner: incoherent with grief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without physical coherence or cohesion; loose; unconnected; not coalescing or uniting.
- Without coherence or agreement; not properly related or coördinated;incongruous; inconsistent; inconsecutive: chiefly used of immaterial things: as, incoherent thoughts.
- In geology, noting textures consisting of loose sediments which have never been cemented.
Wiktionary
- adj. Lacking coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; not logically connected.
- adj. Not physically coherent; loose; unconnected.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
- adj. Lacking logical coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected; rambling; -- of speech or discourse.
- adj. Exhibiting incoherent{2} speech or thought; -- of people.
- adj. Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. without logical or meaningful connection
- adj. (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation
- adj. unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
Etymologies
- in- + coherent (Wiktionary)
Examples
““I don’t know if the term incoherent would apply,” he said.”
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“JB has a tiny gun, and it makes him lash out in incoherent and angry ways.”
“Her inability to communicate a clear, concise message, instead babbling in incoherent broken english, leaves little room for anything other than her inevitable political defeat.”
“Son, inconsistent and incoherent is no way to go through life.”
“But I think that it's easily possible that I'm swayed by external inputs in ways that make my beliefs appear incoherent from the outside.”
Avoiding Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
““The caller, in other words, you, is described as incoherent and hysterical.””
“My heavenly marster!" shrieked the widow in incoherent wailing.”
“So, in short, incoherent, disconnected sentences, this incomprehensible letter began and ended.”
“I wouldn't call anyone "incoherent" - just because I was on the other side of the political fence.”
“The only time I’m ever that incoherent is when I’m well into a bottle of high proof rye.”
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