 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
incoherent
adjective
1: without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid
incoherent presentation" [ant: {coherent}]
2: unable to think or express your thoughts in a clear or
orderly manner; "incoherent with grief"
3: unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt
tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief"
[syn: {tongue-tied}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incoherent \In'co*her"ent\, adjective [Pref. in- not + coherent: cf. F.
incoh['e]rent.]
1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected;
physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of
material substances. --Woodward.
2. Lacking logical coherence or agreement; incongruous;
inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another;
logically disconnected; rambling; -- of speech or
discourse. ''The same rambling, incoherent manner.'' --Bp.
Warburton.
3. Exhibiting incoherent[2] speech or thought; -- of people;
as, a confused and incoherent accident victim.
[PJC]
4. Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.
[PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "incoherent":
Greek to one, abnormal, absurd, aleatoric, aleatory, aloof,
ambiguous, amorphous, anomalous, apart, asunder, babbling,
beyond understanding, bipartite, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
broken, broken off, chance, chancy, chaotic, chopped-off, choppy,
confused, decousu, delirious, detached, dichotomous, disconnected,
discontinued, discontinuous, discordant, discrete, disjoined,
disjointed, disjunctive, disordered, disproportionate, distinct,
divergent, dizzy, episodic, fitful, foggy, fuzzy, gapped, garbled,
general, giddy, hazy, herky-jerky, hit-or-miss, ill-defined,
illogical, impenetrable, imprecise, in two, inaccurate,
inarticulate, inchoate, incognizable, incommensurable,
incommensurate, incompatible, incomprehensible, incongruous,
inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, indecisive, indefinable,
indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact,
inscrutable, insular, intermittent, interrupted, irrational,
irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, lax,
lightheaded, loose, maundering, mixed up, muddled, nonadherent,
nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
nonsequential, nonserial, nonspecific, nonuniform, numinous,
obscure, off, open, orderless, out of proportion, oxymoronic,
paradoxical, parenthetic, partitioned, past comprehension, patchy,
rambling, random, ranting, raving, scrambled, scrappy,
self-contradictory, separate, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless,
snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, stochastic, suspended, sweeping,
tenuous, tongue-tied, unadhesive, unassociated, unattached,
unattended, unclear, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected,
undefined, undestined, undetermined, unfathomable, unintelligible,
unjoined, unknowable, unorganized, unplain, unsearchable,
unspecified, unsuccessive, untenacious, vague, veiled, wandering,
wild
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