mutually exclusive

Speech parts

1. mutually exclusive - Adjective

2. mutually exclusive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unable for both to exist or be true at the same time

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

contradictory opposite opposing arguing conflicting incompatible inconsistent contrasting disparate disjoint antagonistic clashing irreconcilable repugnant incongruous
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Antonyms

consonant consistent compatible congruent harmonious concordant
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Related terms

non-exclusive

Examples

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. Sylvia Plath

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. Roy H. Williams

You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive. Buckminster Fuller

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Wayne W. Dyer

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann

Progress and stability are mutually exclusive. Steve Blank

Close letter words and terms

mutually dependent mutually destructive mutually different mutually harmful mutually incompatible mutually inconsistent