INCOMPATIBLE


Meaning of INCOMPATIBLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

mutually

A parallel universe, mutually incompatible , like matter and anti-matter.

In a turbulent economy, the planning and control functions turned out to be mutually incompatible .

Although these types of theory are mutually incompatible , both regularly obtain empirical support in experiments by different researchers.

quite

Unity seemed to be an impossibility in 1910: men's and women's interests were apparently quite incompatible .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

After a week together on vacation it was clear that they were totally incompatible .

After we got married, we realized we were completely incompatible .

Diane and I are completely incompatible .

My parents always seemed incompatible to me, but they stayed together for over 40 years.

The centre gives advice to women who find the demands of marriage and work incompatible .

These computers are incompatible with our present system.

They've always seemed so incompatible - no wonder they're getting a divorce.

We're completely incompatible - she's a neat freak, and I hate to clean.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But it is not incompatible with science.

For example, punishment may generate incompatible emotions.

I am still left aghast at the astonishing numbers of totally incompatible cichlids that are sometimes crammed into remarkably small tanks.

In addition, it explains various detailed observational facts which are incompatible with the older Newtonian scheme.

In his own day the two kinds of profession were by no means incompatible .

In the best of all possible worlds, community and individual growth are complementary goals, not incompatible ones.

This would be incompatible with the tenure of life on Earth.

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