Incompatible

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
incompatible
    adj 1: not compatible; "incompatible personalities";
           "incompatible colors" [ant: {compatible}]
    2: used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or
       neutralize each other's effect [syn: {antagonistic},
       {incompatible}] [ant: {interactive}, {synergistic}]
    3: not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial
       roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to
       one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn: {uncongenial},
       {incompatible}] [ant: {congenial}]
    4: incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or
       components without modification [ant: {compatible}]
    5: of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
       "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn:
       {contrastive}, {incompatible}]
    6: not easy to combine harmoniously [syn: {ill-sorted},
       {incompatible}, {mismated}, {unsuited}]
    7: not compatible with other facts [syn: {discrepant},
       {incompatible}]
    8: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely
       inappropriate behavior" [syn: {inappropriate},
       {incompatible}, {out or keeping(p)}, {unfitting}]
    9: used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending
       into a stable homogeneous mixture
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, n. (Med. & Chem.)
   An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not
   be placed or used together because of a change of chemical
   composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the
   incompatibles of iron.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incompatible \In`com*pat"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + compatible:
   cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written
   {incompetible}.]
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   1. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of
      harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in
      thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons
      of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires,
      ambition.
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            A strength and obduracy of character incompatible
            with his meek and innocent nature.    --Southey.
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   2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual
      reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
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   {Incompatible terms} (Logic), terms which can not be combined
      in thought.

   Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable;
        unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant;
        repugnant; contradictory. See {Inconsistent}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "incompatible":
      abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic,
      antithetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds,
      at variance, at war, autistic, bashful, chill, chilly, clashing,
      close, cold, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted,
      contrasting, cool, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative,
      different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable,
      disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete,
      discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate,
      disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissociable, dissonant,
      distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
      diversified, frosty, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, icy,
      immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent,
      incommensurable, incommensurate, incongruous, inconsequent,
      inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inhospitable, inimical,
      insociable, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, mismatched,
      mopey, mopish, morose, motley, multifarious, negative,
      nongregarious, opposed, opposite, out of accord, out of proportion,
      out of whack, oxymoronic, paradoxical, poles apart, poles asunder,
      repugnant, self-contained, self-contradictory, self-sufficient,
      separate, separated, several, snug, socially incompatible,
      strained, sullen, tense, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable,
      uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconformable, uncongenial,
      uncordial, unequal, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unlike,
      unsociable, unsocial, unsuited, variant, varied, variegated,
      various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

    

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