Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking coordination; uncoordinated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not coördinate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not coördinate.

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  • adjective Not coordinate.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ coordinate

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Examples

  • To me came appreciations of their harmonies, and mingled with those perceptions were others of humanity — disharmonious, incoordinate, ever struggling, ever striving to destroy itself —

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • With that accomplished, the question is how to spread that sense of worthiness to a greater audience-one that doesn't necessarily read novels, or at least novels that don't put quotations in quotation marks and that toss around words like gutta-percha, incoordinate, and hackamore.

    Burn, Brunch, Burn! 2000

  • Attempts to swallow in such a case are so incoordinate that they give rise frequently to violent fits of choking, which distress the child and produce resistance and struggling, while at the same time they alarm the mother or nurse so much that further attempts to encourage the taking of solid food are hastily and for a long time abandoned.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Mumbling movements of the lips, a slightly incoordinate swaying of the body, might speak for short periods of more than absent-mindedness.

    Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

  • It receives and registers impressions that are seemingly incoordinate; then of a sudden each cog slips into place and the perfection of a belief, of an opinion, of a desire, even of a most momentous discovery, is attained.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • By the time Burns was attempting an incoordinate movement or two, the operation was over and the instruments put out of sight.

    The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Turner picked up a bottle from the table, and made the same incoordinate pass with it at the captain as he had at me the morning before with his magazine.

    The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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