adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mutually
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A parallel universe, mutually incompatible , like matter and anti-matter.
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In a turbulent economy, the planning and control functions turned out to be mutually incompatible .
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Although these types of theory are mutually incompatible , both regularly obtain empirical support in experiments by different researchers.
quite
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Unity seemed to be an impossibility in 1910: men's and women's interests were apparently quite incompatible .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a week together on vacation it was clear that they were totally incompatible .
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After we got married, we realized we were completely incompatible .
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Diane and I are completely incompatible .
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My parents always seemed incompatible to me, but they stayed together for over 40 years.
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The centre gives advice to women who find the demands of marriage and work incompatible .
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These computers are incompatible with our present system.
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They've always seemed so incompatible - no wonder they're getting a divorce.
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We're completely incompatible - she's a neat freak, and I hate to clean.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is not incompatible with science.
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For example, punishment may generate incompatible emotions.
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I am still left aghast at the astonishing numbers of totally incompatible cichlids that are sometimes crammed into remarkably small tanks.
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In addition, it explains various detailed observational facts which are incompatible with the older Newtonian scheme.
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In his own day the two kinds of profession were by no means incompatible .
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In the best of all possible worlds, community and individual growth are complementary goals, not incompatible ones.
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This would be incompatible with the tenure of life on Earth.