Incoherent
adjective
Not clear or easy to understand.
His incoherent speech made it difficult to understand his point
Often appears as...
- incoherent speech
- incoherent thoughts
adjective
Not logically or well organized.
The group had incoherent plans for the project
Often appears as...
- incoherent structure
- incoherent plan
adjective
Unstable, not regular.
The light emitted by the bulb is incoherent
Often appears as...
- incoherent light
- incoherent oscillations
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Technical
adjective
Not clear or easy to understand.
His incoherent speech made it difficult to understand his point
Often appears as...
- incoherent speech
- incoherent thoughts
adjective
Not logically or well organized.
The group had incoherent plans for the project
Often appears as...
- incoherent structure
- incoherent plan
adjective
Unstable, not regular.
The light emitted by the bulb is incoherent
Often appears as...
- incoherent light
- incoherent oscillations
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Matters
Use 'incoherent' to describe unclear communication that's hard to comprehend.
The lecture was incoherent, leaving many students bewildered.
Pro Tip 2/3Speech Impediment
'Incoherent' can refer to speech that's unclear due to a speaker's impairment or distress.
After the accident, his speech was slurred and incoherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
An emotional state can make someone's words incoherent, not just language ability.
Overwhelmed with grief, she uttered incoherent pleas.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Matters
Use 'incoherent' to describe unclear communication that's hard to comprehend.
The lecture was incoherent, leaving many students bewildered.
Pro Tip 2/3Speech Impediment
'Incoherent' can refer to speech that's unclear due to a speaker's impairment or distress.
After the accident, his speech was slurred and incoherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
An emotional state can make someone's words incoherent, not just language ability.
Overwhelmed with grief, she uttered incoherent pleas.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Matters
Use 'incoherent' to describe unclear communication that's hard to comprehend.
The lecture was incoherent, leaving many students bewildered.
Pro Tip 2/3Speech Impediment
'Incoherent' can refer to speech that's unclear due to a speaker's impairment or distress.
After the accident, his speech was slurred and incoherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
An emotional state can make someone's words incoherent, not just language ability.
Overwhelmed with grief, she uttered incoherent pleas.
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Video examples
Matthieu Ricard: How to...
and the long term of the environment. When the environmentalists speak with economists, it's like a schizophrenic dialogue, completely incoherent. They don't speak the same language. Now, for the last 10 years, I went around the world
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The voice of the natural...
chaotic and incoherent which some of us refer to as noise there was a time when I considered wild soundscapes to be a worthless artifact they were just there but they had no significance well I was
Video examples
Matthieu Ricard: How to...
and the long term of the environment. When the environmentalists speak with economists, it's like a schizophrenic dialogue, completely incoherent. They don't speak the same language. Now, for the last 10 years, I went around the world
Video examples
The voice of the natural...
chaotic and incoherent which some of us refer to as noise there was a time when I considered wild soundscapes to be a worthless artifact they were just there but they had no significance well I was
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Quote examples
Dennis Prager
American Journalist
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
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Thom Yorke
English Musician
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
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Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
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James Madison
American President
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.
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Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
Quote examples
Dennis Prager
American Journalist
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies.
Quote examples
Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Quote examples
Thom Yorke
English Musician
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
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Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
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James Madison
American President
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Quote examples
Joss Whedon
American Writer
We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.
Quote examples
Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
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