Definition of Incompatible

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Incompatible

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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Incompatible Quotations

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
Ethan Allen

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie

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 clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

Incompatible Translations

incompatible in French is inconciliable
incompatible in Norwegian is uforenlig
incompatible in Spanish is incompatible
incompatible in Swedish is inkompatibel

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