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In some senses, incoherent is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
discursive, drunk, hasty, long, pretty
VERB + INCOHERENT
accent, becomes, don't, drinks, going, heard, matters, message
INCOHERENT + NOUN
babble, contradictorie, explanation, ideas, participation, ramblings, someone, speech
PREP.
about, around, from, in, off, on, with
adj
Not coherent.
When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.
Not coherent.
[…] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.
That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.
Not coherent.
At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
[…] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.
noun
A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.
adjective — unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
WiktionaryAfter just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.
WiktionaryBy which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.
WiktionaryThat person's accent is incoherent to me.
Tatoeba · #868263Listening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.
Tatoeba · #1235568These words are sure to be the incoherent ramblings of a madman.
Tatoeba · #1507606i Register
In some senses, incoherent is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.