incompatible
pronunciation
How to pronounce incompatible in British English:
UK [ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl]
How to pronounce incompatible in American English:
US [ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl]
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- Adjective:
- not compatible
- used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- not suitable to your tastes or needs
- incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- of words so related that one contrasts with the other
- not easy to combine harmoniously
- not compatible with other facts
- not in keeping with what is correct or proper
- used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
Word Origin
- incompatible (adj.)
- mid-15c., from Medieval Latin incompatibilis, from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + compatibilis (see compatible). Originally of benefices, "incapable of being held together;" sense of "mutually intolerant" is from 1590s. Related: Incompatibly.
Synonym
Example
- 1. By 1991 , there were many incompatible versions of unix .
- 2. Yet economic efficiency and social justice need not be incompatible .
- 3. For the very wealthy , these two aims are incompatible .
- 4. But it does help disprove the widespread belief that islam and overtly islamist political parties must always be incompatible with a functioning democracy .
- 5. Fundamentally , the decision to leave the peg shows that china 's leaders recognize that such a strict currency regime is incompatible with their large and rapidly growing economy .