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incongruous
adjective as in out of place; absurd
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- alien
- conflicting
- disconsonant
- discordant
- disparate
- distorted
- divergent
- extraneous
- fantastic
- fitful
- foreign
- illogical
- improper
- inapropos
- inapt
- incongruent
- inconsistent
- irreconcilable
- irregular
- jumbled
- lopsided
- mismatched
- out of keeping
- rambling
- shifting
- twisted
- unavailing
- unbalanced
- unbecoming
- unconnected
- uncoordinated
- uneven
- unintelligible
- unpredictable
- unrelated
- unsuitable
- unsuited
Example Sentences
They called the place La Ciénega, a corruption of an Indigenous word and an incongruous name — the swamp — in a desert wasteland.
The fact that the president’s approval rating has been on the decline as he’s increasingly become a petulant sandbox bully isn’t actually incongruous.
“It was OK, but it was incongruous, getting us nowhere, and in the end we had no money, no nothing.”
The backlash was immediate from a subset of the brand’s fans, who saw the plant-based sausage as incongruous with the old-country-store experience.
“It just seemed so incongruous to zip tie someone in their closet,” she said, “and then bring them a bottle of Perrier.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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