incongruous

incongruous

incongruous (comparative more incongruous, superlative most incongruous)

1. Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ch. 34:

     [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, ch. 1:

     Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.

   • 1912, Jack London, A Son Of The Sunm ch. 1:

     Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniards. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

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incongruente

incongruo

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Altri significati:

Composed of inherently different or distinct elements

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

not matching

Traduzione 'veloce'

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