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incongruous

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈkɒn.ɡɹʊu.ʌs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cginnoorsuuStarts with IEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

Word origin

From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous.

Used in a sentence

  • [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.
  • 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.
  • A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.

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