not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
Used in a Sentence
incompatible
How to use incompatible in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for incompatible.
Editorial note
When I started, GNU sed was very incompatible with the relatively new Posix standard for sed.
Examples6
Definitions9
Parts of speech1
Quick take
not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of incompatible gathered in one view.
used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for incompatible.
adjective
not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
adjective
used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
See also: antagonistic
adjective
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
adjective
incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
adjective
of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
See also: contrastive
adjective
not easy to combine harmoniously
See also: ill-sorted, mismated, unsuited
adjective
not compatible with other facts
See also: discrepant
adjective
not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior"
See also: inappropriate, unfitting
adjective
used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
Example sentences
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.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use incompatible in a sentence?
When I started, GNU sed was very incompatible with the relatively new Posix standard for sed.
What does incompatible mean?
not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
What part of speech is incompatible?
incompatible is commonly used as adjective.