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adjective

Incoherent adj.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; said of material substances.

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."

Exhibiting incoherent (2) speech or thought; of people; as, a confused and incoherent accident victim.

Lacking harmony or congruity of parts.

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Etymology of 'Incoherent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incoherent" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Horace, he tolerates Lucan (which is surprising), adores Petronius (as well he might), and delights in the neologisms and the exotic novelty of Apuleius. His curiosity extends to the later Christian poets—from the coloured verse of Claudian down to the verse which is scarcely verse of the incoherent ninth century. He is, of course, an amateur of exquisite printing, of beautiful bindings, and possesses an incomparable Baudelaire (edition tiree a un exemplaire), a unique Mallarme. Catholicism being the adopted religion ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... Sabre said the letter was the most frightfully pathetic document he could ever have imagined. Smudged, he said, and stained and badly expressed as if the writer—this girl—this Effie Bright—was crying and incoherent with distress when she wrote it. And she no doubt was. She said she'd got into terrible trouble. She'd got a little baby. Sabre said it was awful to him the way she kept on in every sentence calling it 'a little baby'—never a child, or just a baby, but always 'a little ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

... that might overlook that sisterly barrier, but could not overleap it. If his eyes had said less, or if she could have compelled her lips to say more! But her usually active tongue seemed to lack for words and she found herself talking in a reckless and somewhat incoherent manner upon all sorts of topics, which she dragged forward in order to keep in check the words which the look in his eyes heralded ...

— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... qualities of the very highest order. He could sit down before a mass of incoherent statements, and figures that would drive most men insane, and elucidate them by the most painstaking investigation, and feel a pleasure in the work. Indeed, an intimate friend of his assures us that ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... should let him have his wife. But Henry replied that the council had forbidden that he should see the queen. This exasperated the king more than ever. He walked to and fro across the apartment, wringing his hands, and uttering wild and incoherent ...

— Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

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