incongruent

comparative more incongruent · superlative most incongruent

1. figurativelyhigher registerOut of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent.

   The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.

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   Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.

   And like so many robots, they’re an incongruent mashup of terrifying and cute. Aww, look at those guys. Also, runnnnn!

   2015 December 23, Adrienne LaFrance, “Santa's Reindeer Are Robots Now”, in The Atlantic

   Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”

   2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative

   Synonyms: incongruous, absurd, inappropriate

2. mathematicsOf or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number