incommensurable
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
incommensurable
adj 1: impossible to measure or compare in value or size or
excellence
2: not having a common factor
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.]
Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of
comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third
quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the
side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each
other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are
incommensurable.
[1913 Webster]
They are quantities incommensurable. --Burke.
-- {In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*bly},
adv.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "incommensurable":
abnormal, absurd, alien, anomalous, apart, detached, disconnected,
discrete, disjunct, disproportionate, disrelated, dissimilar,
dissociated, exotic, extraneous, foreign, incoherent,
incommensurate, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular,
irreconcilable, irrelative, isolated, not comparable to,
of different orders, other, out of proportion, outlandish,
oxymoronic, paradoxical, removed, segregate, self-contradictory,
separate, separated, strange, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated,
unconnected, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated
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