incompatible

Meanings

Plural: incompatibles

Adjective

• not compatible
  • "incompatible personalities"
  • "incompatible colors"
• 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

Adjective Satellite

• 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

Adj

• Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities.
• Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.

Noun

• An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.
• A consequent of a contrary.

Synonyms

abhorrent, antagonistic, contrastive, discrepant, ill-sorted, inappropriate, irreconcilable, mismated, out or keeping, uncongenial, unfitting, unsuited

Antonyms

compatible, congenial, synergistic

Related Words

antagonistic, antipodal, contrastive, incombinable, uncombinable, ununifiable

Anagrams of incompatible