incongruent
Out of place
Incongruent describes things that don't fit together or match up properly.
Two accounts of an event are incongruent if they contradict each other.
In geometry, incongruent shapes cannot be superimposed exactly.
The word often appears in psychology and therapy: His words were incongruent with his body language.
Congruent is more common than its negative.
Striking with discord
- jarringDisturbingly incongruous
- dissonantLacking harmonic agreement
- cacophonousHarsh and jarring
- disharmoniousLacking agreement or consonance
grating · harsh · strident · inconsonant · conflicting · antagonistic · contradictory · antithetical
Departing from what's typical
- atypicalNot conforming to type
- outlierDistant data point
- deviantOne diverging from norms
- unusualNot often encountered
peculiar · odd · strange · unconventional · irregular · abnormal · eccentric · exceptional
Not smooth or balanced
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
- unbalancedLacking equilibrium or stability
- disproportionateNot properly scaled
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
misaligned · unequal · askew · awry · tilted · off-kilter · nonuniform · irregular
clashing
Striking with discord
- jarringDisturbingly incongruous
- dissonantLacking harmonic agreement
- cacophonousHarsh and jarring
disharmonious · grating · harsh · strident · inconsonant · conflicting · antagonistic · contradictory · antithetical · irreconcilable
aberrant
Departing from what's typical
unusual · peculiar · odd · strange · unconventional · irregular · abnormal · eccentric · exceptional · idiosyncratic
uneven
Not smooth or balanced
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
- unbalancedLacking equilibrium or stability
- disproportionateNot properly scaled
skewed · misaligned · unequal · askew · awry · tilted · off-kilter · nonuniform · irregular · distorted
- compatibilitycompatible, incompatible, match, mismatch, fit
- togethernesstogether, united, unity, togetherness, bonding
- unevenuneven, irregular, unequal, nonuniform, asymmetric
incongruentcongruent
Identical in form
identical · equivalent · matching · coincident · equal
incongruentcongruent
Identical in form
harmonious · consonant · compatible · concordant · fitting
incongruence, incongruently, incongruences, incongruency, incongruencies