incoherent
/ˌɪnkoʊhˈɪɹənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not coherent.
adj
Not coherent.
noun
A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.
Example Sentences
- "When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation."
- "After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent."
- "By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie."
- "1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z, […] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]"
- "[…] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent."
- "It was as if he was in fear of being swamped, rendered incoherent, by the sheer marvelousness of what he was relating."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent English incoherent From in- + coherent.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incoherent (comparative)
most incoherent (superlative)
incohærent (alternative)
Incoherents (plural)