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Incoherent   /ɪnkoʊhˈɪrənt/   Listen
Incoherent

adjective
1.
Without logical or meaningful connection.
2.
(physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation.
3.
Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently.  Synonym: tongue-tied.  "Incoherent with grief"






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"Incoherent" Quotes from Famous Books



... The distance seemed insupportably long. He was now tormented by the fear that he should not reach his destination in time to take the first train for Dover. When he alighted at the hotel, he learned that in less than an hour the train would start. He dashed off a few, incoherent, sorrowful lines to Bertha, hastily crammed his clothes into his trunk, paid his bill, drove to the station, and secured a seat one moment before the railway ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... defence of the right of property recently put forth by M. Wolowski, your colleague at the Conservatory. With this view, I had commenced to collect the documents necessary for each of his lectures, but, soon perceiving that the ideas of the professor were incoherent, that his arguments contradicted each other, that one affirmation was sure to be overthrown by another, and that in M. Wolowski's lucubrations the good was always mingled with the bad, and being by nature a little suspicious, it suddenly ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

... concentration," which opens up the possibility of acquiring "moral powers." It is from methodical "meditation" that moral personality must draw its powers of solidification, without which the "inner man," incoherent and unbalanced, fails to possess itself and dispose of itself ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori

... now returning, apparently with disburdened minds, for anxious wrinkles were smoothed out into complacent curiosity. Bluebell made an incoherent attack on the stewardess, who swept by, without attending, and after being passed on from one official to the other, she found herself half-proprietess of a dark confined den, with two berths, ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... I feel that I owe an apology to the Senate for having occupied their attention so long, and a still greater apology for having discussed the question in such an incoherent and desultory manner. But I could not forbear to claim the right of closing this debate. I thought gentlemen would recognize its propriety when they saw the manner in which I was assailed and misrepresented in the course of this discussion, and especially by assaults ...
— American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various


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