Meaning

3 senses
  1. Not coherent.

    Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.

    When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.

    After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.

    inkohärent, unzusammenhängend, unlogisch

    бессвя́зныйbessvjáznyj, несвя́зныйnesvjáznyj, ры́хлыйrýxlyj

  2. Not cohering socially, not united.

  3. (obsolete)Not holding together physically; loose; unconnected.

More definitions
  • unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
  • (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation
  • without logical or meaningful connection

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom's message was incoherent.

    deToms Nachricht war inkohärent.

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  2. Tom was incoherent.

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  3. Sami appeared to be pretty incoherent.

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  4. That person's accent is incoherent to me.

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  5. Stefan heard incoherent screaming in the hall.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
lacking coherence, inconsistent:
not physically coherent:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
lacking coherence, inconsistent:
not physically coherent:

Forms

more incoherent, most incoherent
Comparativemore incoherent Lesson
Superlativemost incoherent Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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