Adjective: incompatible ,in-kum'pa-tu-bul- Not compatible
"incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colours" - Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- antagonistic - Not suitable to your tastes or needs
"the incompatible roommates were always fighting"; - uncongenial - Incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- Of words so related that one contrasts with the other
"'rich' and 'hard-up' are incompatible terms"; - contrastive - (of a couple) not compatible; unsuitably matched
"protracted anguish of an incompatible union"; - ill-sorted, mismated, unsuited, ill-assorted, ill-suited - Not compatible with other facts
- discrepant - Not in keeping with what is correct or proper
"completely incompatible behaviour"; - inappropriate, out of keeping, unfitting - Used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
See also: antacid, antagonistic, antiphlogistic, antonymous, clashing, contradictory, different, disagreeable, immiscible, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, mismatched, mutually exclusive, non-miscible, out of line, out of order [Brit], uncongenial, unfriendly, unharmonious, unmixable, unsympathetic Antonym: compatible, congenial, synergistic Encyclopedia: Incompatible |