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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incompatible \In'com*pat"i*ble\, noun (Med. & Chem.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incompatible \In'com*pat"i*ble\, adjective [Pref. in- not + compatible: cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written {incompetible}.]
1. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. --Southey.
2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
{Incompatible terms} (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought.
Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See {Inconsistent}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
incompatible
adjective
1: not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" [ant: {compatible}]
2: used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect [syn: {antagonistic}] [ant: {synergistic}]
3: not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn: {uncongenial}] [ant: {congenial}]
4: incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification [ant: {compatible}]
5: of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "'rich' and 'hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: {contrastive}]
6: not easy to combine harmoniously [syn: {ill-sorted}, {mismated}, {unsuited}]
7: not compatible with other facts [syn: {discrepant}]
8: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: {inappropriate}, {out or keeping(p)}, {unfitting}]
9: used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "incompatible": abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, autistic, bashful, chill, chilly, clashing, close, cold, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissociable, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, frosty, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, icy, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inhospitable, inimical, insociable, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, mismatched, mopey, mopish, morose, motley, multifarious, negative, nongregarious, opposed, opposite, out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, oxymoronic, paradoxical, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, self-contained, self-contradictory, self-sufficient, separate, separated, several, snug, socially incompatible, strained, sullen, tense, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconformable, uncongenial, uncordial, unequal, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unlike, unsociable, unsocial, unsuited, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
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