Adjective

(en adjective)

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

* 1853 , , 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.

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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 , , A Son Of The Sun m ch. 1:

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.

* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]

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.

(math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.

He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

Compatible, accordant.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

(logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.