6 example sentences using incompatible.
Incompatible used in a sentence
Incompatible in a sentence as an adjective
When I started, GNU sed was very incompatible with the relatively new Posix standard for sed.
Integration phases where we tried to combine wildly incompatible components after 6 months of separate work.
Nobody, not even Torvalds or van Rossum, could throw a switch and shut down your Linux boxes or your Python interpreter, so any needed migration to an incompatible system can happen at your convenience.
We no longer have the time to let skills sink into the autonomous nervous system, as it were, and even if we try, the criminal in Redmond, WA, has a new, incompatible version out by the time we learned the last version...
Rather than just allow you to pass login tokens to Flexible Payments, however, they have decided to provide a completely incompatible API with a new set of endpoints, a completely incompatible accounting system, and even completely new terminology to describe the same set of steps.
We put the fire out by reverting the Oracle DB version on a few big sites, telling everyone else to downgrade as well, and posting on an out of band channel that if you were doing anything important with the Internet you might want to stop for a few hours because there were going to be two separate and very mutually incompatible Internets and one of them was going to suddenly vanish a couple hours later and it sure would suck if your mail/web browsing/Dropbox/etc went into that one."Seriously.
Incompatible definitions
not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
See also: antagonistic
not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
See also: uncongenial
incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
See also: contrastive
not easy to combine harmoniously
See also: ill-sorted mismated unsuited
not compatible with other facts
See also: discrepant
not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior"
See also: inappropriate unfitting
used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture