incompatible

/,inkəm'pætəbl/

Thân thiện

Oil and water are famously incompatible.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not capable of existing or working together in harmony: Describes things, people, or ideas that are fundamentally mismatched and cannot combine without conflict or problems.
   • Not consistent or in logical agreement with something else: Refers to facts, statements, or principles that contradict each other.
   • (Technical) Incapable of mixing or being used together: Used especially in chemistry for substances that do not form a stable mixture, or in technology for devices that cannot connect without modification.

Examples of Usage

• General Use:
  • Their personalities were incompatible, leading to constant arguments.
  • The witness's testimony was incompatible with the physical evidence found at the scene.
• Technical/Specific Use:
  • Oil and water are incompatible substances.
  • This software is incompatible with the older operating system.

Advanced Usage

• "to be incompatible with": This is the standard prepositional phrase used to link the incompatible elements.
  • His aggressive management style is incompatible with the company's collaborative culture.
• Mutual Incompatibility: The state where two or more things are incompatible with each other.
  • The incompatibility of their goals made partnership impossible.

Variants and Related Words

• Incompatibility (noun): The quality or state of being incompatible.
  • The divorce was due to fundamental incompatibility.
• Compatibly (adverb): In a compatible manner. (This is the antonym's adverbial form, provided for contrast).
• Incompatibly (adverb): In an incompatible manner.

Synonyms

• Conflicting: Being in opposition or disagreement.
• Incongruous: Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects.
• Unsuited: Not appropriate or fitting.
• Contradictory: Mutually opposed or inconsistent.

Antonyms

• Compatible: Capable of existing or working together in harmony.
• Consistent: In agreement; not self-contradictory.
• Harmonious: Forming a pleasing or consistent whole.

Related Phrases and Concepts

• Irreconcilable differences: A phrase often used in law (e.g., divorce) to describe fundamental incompatibilities between people.
• Mutually exclusive: A logical term describing two events that cannot both occur, closely related to incompatibility in concepts or options.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
2. not in keeping with what is correct or proper
   • completely inappropriate behavior
3. not compatible with other facts
4. not easy to combine harmoniously
5. of words so related that one contrasts with the other
   • `rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms
6. incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
7. not suitable to your tastes or needs
   • the uncongenial roommates were always fighting
   • the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs
8. used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
9. not compatible
   • incompatible personalities
   • incompatible colors

Từ đồng nghĩa

• inappropriate
• out or keeping
• unfitting
• discrepant
• ill-sorted
• mismated
• unsuited
• contrastive
• uncongenial
• antagonistic