incompatible

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1. incompatible - Noun

2. incompatible - Adjective

3. incompatible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.

Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.

An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Isaiah Berlin

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Walter Scott

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. Paul Dirac

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. Gustav Stresemann

To love and be wise is incompatible. Portuguese Proverb

Love and prudence are absolutely incompatible. Bolivian Proverb

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