incompatible

English

Etymology

French incompatible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/, /ˌɪnkəmˈpætɪbəl/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

incompatible (comparative more incompatible, superlative most incompatible)

1. Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities.

   My phone is incompatible with the latest version of this app.

   • 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number LXXXIII”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], OCLC 642792893:

     Courts of equity are in many instances so nice and intricate, that they are incompatible with the genius of trials by jury.

   • 2019 February 27, Jeremy Pelzer, “Green Party presidential hopeful says he was fired as rabbi because of Israel criticism”, in cleveland.com‎^[1]:

     After the story was published, Hunter stated that the temple's executive committee informed him that such statements were incompatible with being a rabbi.

   Synonym: irreconcilable

2. (chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.

Antonyms

• compatible

Hyponyms

• backward-incompatible

Derived terms

• incompatibly
• incompatibility

Translations

impossible to coexist; irreconcilable

• Armenian: անհամատեղելի (hy) (anhamatełeli)
• Bulgarian: несъвместим (bg) (nesǎvmestim)
• Catalan: incompatible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不兼容的 (bù jiānróng de), 不相容的 (zh) (bù xiāngróng de)

• Czech: neslučitelný
• Danish: uforenelig
• Dutch: onverenigbaar (nl)
• Finnish: yhteensovittamaton, yhteensopimaton (fi)
• French: incompatible (fr)
• Galician: incompatible (gl), incompatíbel (gl)
• Georgian: შეუთავსებელი (šeutavsebeli)
• German: inkompatibel (de), unvereinbar (de)
• Greek: ασυμβίβαστος (el) (asymvívastos), ασύμβατος (el) (asýmvatos)
• Hungarian: inkompatíbilis, összeegyeztethetetlen (hu)
• Irish: neamhfhreagrach, contrártha
• Italian: incompatibile (it)
• Japanese: 相容れない (ja) (aiirenai)
• Korean: 양립할 수 없는 (yangniphal su eomneun)
• Latin: dissociābilis
• Maori: mataku (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inkompatibel, uforenlig

• Occitan: incompatible
• Persian: ناسازگار‎ (fa) (nâsâzgâr)
• Polish: niekompatybilny, niezgodny (pl)
• Portuguese: incompatível
• Romanian: incompatibil (ro)
• Russian: несовмести́мый (ru) (nesovmestímyj)
• Spanish: incompatible (es), malavenido (es)
• Swedish: inkompatibel (sv), oförenlig (sv)
• Turkish: aykırı (tr), bağdaşmayan, bağdaşmaz (tr), uyumsuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: несумі́сний (nesumísnyj)

See also

• antagonistic
• antipodal
• contrastive
• incombinable
• uncombinable
• ununifiable

Noun

incompatible (plural incompatibles)

1. (medicine, chemistry, chiefly in the plural) An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.

   the incompatibles of iron

2. (philosophy) A consequent of a contrary.
   • 2004, Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica, translated by Eleonore Stump

     Incompatibles are consequents of contraries. For example, sleeping and waking are contraries, and snoring is associated with sleepers. So snoring and waking are incompatibles.

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ compatible.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /iŋ.kom.pəˈti.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /iŋ.kum.pəˈti.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /iŋ.kom.paˈti.ble/

Adjective

incompatible (masculine and feminine plural incompatibles)

1. incompatible

   Antonym: compatible

Derived terms

• incompatibilitat
• incompatiblement

Further reading

• “incompatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Adjective

incompatible (plural incompatibles)

1. incompatible

   Antonym: compatible

Derived terms

• incompatibilité
• incompatiblement

Further reading

• “incompatible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

• incompatíbel

Adjective

incompatible m or f (plural incompatibles)

1. incompatible

   Antonyms: compatible, compatíbel

Related terms

• incompatibilidade

Further reading

• “incompatible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Adjective

incompatible m (feminine singular incompatibla, masculine plural incompatibles, feminine plural incompatiblas)

1. incompatible

   Antonym: compatible

Derived terms

• incompatibilitat

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 560.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 338.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkompaˈtible/ [ĩŋ.kõm.paˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: in‧com‧pa‧ti‧ble

Adjective

incompatible (plural incompatibles)

1. incompatible

   Antonym: compatible

Related terms

• incompatibilidad

Further reading

• “incompatible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014