Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: incongruous
IPA transcription: [,ɪŋk'ɔŋɹuəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: incongruous
    Meaning: lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
Usage examples
  • An incongruous spectacle
  • If terms be incorrect, language will be incongruous; and if language be incongruous, deeds will be imperfect.
  • Though both enjoy a moist peat soil, and have a near botanical relationship, they are incongruous in appearance, and impossible to group together for colour.
  • Grotesquely incongruous amidst these forms, I presently came on estate boards, appealing, "Houses can be built to suit purchaser," to the silence, to the shadows, and the glare.
  • The other Carlos, turning off to the left with a rapid clatter of hoofs on the disjointed pavement--Don Carlos Gould, in his English clothes, looked as incongruous, but much more at home than the kingly cavalier reining in his steed on the pedestal above the sleeping leperos, with his marble arm raised towards the marble rim of a plumed hat.