incoherent

/,inkou'hiərənt/

Thân thiện

The patient's speech was incoherent after the accident.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Unable to express oneself clearly or logically: Used to describe speech, writing, or thought that is unclear, disjointed, and difficult to follow.
   • Lacking a logical or meaningful connection: Describing ideas, arguments, or narratives that are jumbled, inconsistent, or not properly linked.
   • (Physics) Of waves: Having no stable, definite, or consistent phase relationship.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • After the accident, he was shocked and gave an incoherent statement to the police.
  • The essay was marked down for its incoherent structure and lack of a clear thesis.
  • The patient's fever made her incoherent; her words made no sense.
  • In physics, incoherent light sources, like a light bulb, emit waves with random phase differences.

Advanced Usage

• "Incoherent with [emotion]": So overwhelmed by a strong emotion (e.g., grief, rage, joy) that one cannot speak or think clearly.
  • She was incoherent with rage after hearing the news.
• "Render someone incoherent": To cause someone to become unable to speak or think clearly.
  • The sheer complexity of the problem rendered him incoherent.

Variants and Related Words

• Incoherence (noun): The state or quality of being incoherent.
  • The incoherence of his argument weakened his position.
• Incoherently (adverb): In an incoherent manner.
  • He mumbled incoherently before falling asleep.

Synonyms

• Disjointed: Lacking a coherent sequence or connection.
• Rambling: Lengthy and confused in speech or writing.
• Inarticulate: Unable to express ideas clearly.
• Illogical: Lacking sense or sound reasoning.
• Jumbled: Mixed up in a confused manner.

Antonyms

• Coherent: Logical, consistent, and clear.
• Lucid: Expressed clearly; easy to understand.
• Articulate: Having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "To babble incoherently": To talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.
  • Under the influence of the anesthetic, he babbled incoherently.
• "An incoherent mess": A situation, piece of work, or collection of things that is utterly confused and disordered.
  • Without proper planning, the project quickly became an incoherent mess.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
   • felt tongue-tied with embarrassment
   • incoherent with grief
2. (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation
3. without logical or meaningful connection
   • a turgid incoherent presentation

Từ đồng nghĩa

• tongue-tied