Incongruent vs Incongruous - What's the difference?
incongruent | incongruous |
out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent
(mathematics) of or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number
Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
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(math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
Incongruous is a related term of incongruent.
Incongruous is a synonym of incongruent.
As adjectives the difference between incongruent and incongruous
is that incongruent is out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent while incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.incongruent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.
- Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.
Synonyms
* incongruous, absurd, inappropriateSee also
* anachronistic ----incongruous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [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.
- 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.
- Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
- For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
- 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.