Incoherent

Definitions: Incoherent

Incoherent

Adjective

1. Without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation".

2. Unable to think or express your thoughts in a clear or orderly manner; "incoherent with grief".

3. Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief".

Date "incoherent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of incoherency, usually denotes extreme nervousness and excitement through the oppression of changing events. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Mining	A. Said of a rock or deposit that is loose or unconsolidated b. Said of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) having a broad spectrum of frequencies; e.g., incoherent (sunlight) EMR vs. coherent (laser) EM e.g., incoherent (sunlight) EMR vs. coherent (laser) EM. (references)
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Synonym: Incoherent

Synonym: tongue-tied (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: coherent (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Coherence	Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined;
Insanity	Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incoherent

English words defined with "incoherent": babble ♦ Discoherent ♦ incoherence, incoherency, incoherently, Incompacted ♦ logomania, logorrhea ♦ unintelligibility ♦ word salad. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incoherent": Blind Department ♦ Drivelling Dotage ♦ eluvial ♦ Fairy ♦ naturally gravel-packed well, naturally-screened well ♦ Reading, regolith ♦ sample splitter, soft ore. (references)

Etymologies containing "incoherent": Incoherentific. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler)
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Domain	Title
Books	Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl (reference) Bill, the Galactic Hero: the Final Incoherent Adventure (reference) Eiscat Science: Results from the First Year's Operation of the European Incoherent Scatter Rader (reference) High latitude D-region studies by incoherent scatter radar measurements (reference) Overhearing the incoherent : selected poems (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Thibaut's son was a saint : when they made him a bishop, Thibaut was incoherent with joy, and Blanche wondered whether she ought to be proud and if so, what of.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Herbert Spencer	Civilization is progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	All that Marius felt was tumultuous and incoherent.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Stephen sat on a footstool beside his father listening to a long and incoherent monologue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Uzbekistan	The GOU's tendency to legislate by decree further complicates the situation; the result is a internally incoherent and arbitrary structure, rather than the stable framework a foreign investor expects. (references)
Political Economy	PANAMA	Another debilitating factor has been the Government of Panama's incoherent economic agenda. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Geoff Shank	Mr. King, I knew he was committing himself and he was somewhat incoherent when he was doing so, but the medical parameters surrounding that self-admission, I'm not sure what those are.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	But his imagination is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Incoherent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.20% of the time. "Incoherent" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	93.2%	96	33,456
Noun (singular)	6.8%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	103	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "incoherent": near-incoherent.
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Language		Translations for "incoherent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shkrifët (friable, loamy), i palidhur (abrupt, disjointed, free, scrappy, skimble-skamble, unattached, unbound, unrelated, untied). (various references)

Arabic		‏متفكك, ‏متنافر (conflicting, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, grotesque, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, jarring), ‏غير مترابط (abrupt, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, inconsequent, ragged, rambling, scrappy). (various references)

Bulgarian		разхвърлян (desultory, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, piggish, scattered, unkempt, untidy), несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rambling, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), неспособен да се изразява ясно, неспособен да говори, непоследователен (contradictious, desultory, fanciful, inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, undigested). (various references)

Chinese		不连贯 (inconsequent). (various references)

Czech		nesouvislý (desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, rambling). (various references)

Farsi		متناقض (Anomalous, Incommensurable, Inconsistent, Repugnant), بی ربط (Desultory, Disjointed, Impertinent, Irrelevant, Loose, Rigmarole). (various references)

Finnish		sekava (confused, involved, muddled, tangled), katkonainen (broken, disconnected, fragmentary, intermittent), hajanainen (desultory, disconnected, scattered), hajan (desultory, disconnected, scattered), epäyhtenäinen (disconnected, polydisperse). (various references)

French		incohérent (inconsistent). (various references)

German		unzusammenhängend (desultorily, discontinuously, disjointed, incoherently). (various references)

Greek		εκτός φάσης, ασύμφωνος (discordant), ασυνάρτητοσ (discursive, rambling), ασυναρτησία (bull, discursiveness, double talk, incoherence, incongruity). (various references)

Hebrew		מבולבל (addled, confused, disturbed, flurried, fuddled, muddleheaded, perplexed, upset), חסר קשר. (various references)

Hungarian		összefüggéstelen (abrupt, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inasmuch, loose, rambling, scrappy, skimble-skamble). (various references)

Italian		incoerente (disjointed, inconsistent, rambling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�離滅裂 (illogical, inconsistent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しりめつれつ (illogical, inconsistent), つじつまのあわない (inconsistent), �"うよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), めつれつ (in chaos), めっぽう (absurd, extraordinary, in chaos, very), とりとめのない (rambling, vague, wandering, whimsical). (various references)

Korean		모순되�" (Contradicted). (various references)

Manx		rouaillagh (adrift, delirious, devious, erring, itinerant, prowler, rambling), meeresoonagh (illogical, preposterous, senseless). (various references)

Norwegian		usammenhengende (disconnected, disjointed). (various references)

Pig Latin		incoherentay

Portuguese		incoerente (contradictory, disconnectedly, inconsistent, rigmarole). (various references)

Romanian		incoerent (disconnected, disjointed, inarticulate, incoherently, rambling, rigmarole). (various references)

Russian		несвязный (desultory, disjointed, inconsequential). (various references)

Scottish		brolaich (incoherent talk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepovezan (asyndetic, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, unbounded, unconnected, unrelated), nekoherentan. (various references)

Spanish		incoherente (inconsistent, meandering). (various references)

Swedish		osammanhängande (abrupt, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inarticulate, inconsequent, inconsequential, scrappy). (various references)

Turkish		ipe sapa gelmez (absurd, disjointed, nonsense, rambling, without rhyme or reason), tutarsız (abrupt, as thin as a wafer, choppy, conflicting, contradictious, contradictory, desultory, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, double-minded, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, precarious, rambling, unconnected, wafer-thin, wayward), bağdaşmaz (inconsistent, irreconcilable), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty), abuk sabuk (farcical, nonsense, nonsensical). (various references)

Ukranian		невідповідний (anomalous, contradictory, discrepant, disharmonious, inadequate, inappropriate, incommensurate, incongruous, unequal), незцементований, незв'язний (desultory, disjointed, non-coherent, unconnected). (various references)

Vietnamese		nói lảm nhảm, không rời rạc nói không mạch lạc, không mạch lạc (desultory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incoherent": incoherently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incoherent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acoherent, incohare, incoherant, incolerent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incoherent" (pronounced i'nkōhi"runt)
8	-k ō h i" r u n t	coherent.
6	-h i" r u n t	adherent, inherent.
4	-r u n t	aberrant, abhorrent, apparent, arrant, celebrant, Courant, declarant, deterrent, emigrant, entrant, errant, flagrant, fragrant, grandparent, hydrant, immigrant, indifferent, migrant, parent, quadrant, recalcitrant, registrant, seafront, torrent, transparent, tyrant, vagrant, vibrant, warrant.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, harassment, hesitant, ignorant, immanent, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vigilant, violent, virulent, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: threonine.
	-2 letters: coherent, coinhere, cretonne, enthrone, entrench, erection, hereinto, incenter, inherent, inthrone, intrench, neotenic, neoteric.
	-3 letters: centner, cheerio, chinone, chorine, cithern, cithren, cointer, coterie, enteric, enteron, enticer, erethic, etheric, heretic, heroine, interne, intoner, neither, notcher, noticer, techier, tenoner, ternion, therein, thereon, thinner, tinhorn, trochee.
	-4 letters: cenote, center, centre, cerite, cheero, chiton, cither, citron, coheir, cohere, coiner, conine, conner, cornet, cortin, cretin, echoer, either, encore, enrich, entice, entire, erotic, etcher, ethion, ethnic, hector, herein, hereon, hereto, heriot, heroic, heroin, hetero, hinter, hornet, inhere, intern, intone, intron, nether, nocent, noetic, norite, nother, notice, orcein, orient, recent, recite, recoin, reecho, rennet, retine, richen, rochet, rotche, techie, tenner, tenrec, theine, thence, thoric, thrice, throne, tierce, tinner, tocher, tonier, tonner, trench, triene, troche.
	-5 letters: cento, cheer, chert, chine, chino, chiro, choir, chore, citer, conin, conte, crone, enter, erect, ether, ethic, hence, heron, honer, ichor, inert, inner, inter, intro, irone, ither, nicer, niche, niece, ninth, niter, niton, nitre, nitro, nonce, nonet, north, notch, noter, ocher, ochre, ontic, orcin, other, recon, recti, recto, renin, rente, retch, retie, rhino, rotch, tench, tenon, tenor, terce, terne, thein, their, there, thine, thorn, three, throe, toner, tonic, tonne, torch, toric, treen, trice, trine, trone.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	+2 letters: ethnocentric, incoherently, technetronic.
	+3 letters: ethnocentrism.
	+4 letters: ethnocentrisms, nontheoretical, nontherapeutic, synchroneities.
	+5 letters: counterchecking, ethnocentricity, nephrectomizing, nonarchitecture, parthenogenetic, phenylketonuric.
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