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incoherent

Syllabification: (in·co·her·ent)
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Definition of incoherent

adjective

  • 1(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear:he screamed some incoherent threat
  • (of a person) unable to speak intelligibly:I splutter several more times before becoming incoherent
  • (of an ideology, policy, or system) internally inconsistent; illogical:the film is ideologically incoherent
  • 2 Physics (of waves) having no definite or stable phase relationship.

Derivatives

incoherence

noun

incoherency

noun (plural incoherencies)

incoherently

adverb

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