Incompatible
adjective
Not able to exist together with something else without problems or conflict.
Her job was incompatible with her family obligations.
Often appears as...
- incompatible with
- incompatible views
adjective
Not able to run or be installed on the same system or machine in computing.
The software updates were incompatible with her old computer system.
Often appears as...
- incompatible software
- incompatible devices
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Technical
adjective
Unavailable for friendships, marriages or romantic relationships, due to having different likes, tastes or habits.
His taste in music is completely different from mine and we are just incompatible as a couple.
Often appears as...
- incompatible partners
- incompatible couples
adjective
Not able to exist together with something else without problems or conflict.
Her job was incompatible with her family obligations.
Often appears as...
- incompatible with
- incompatible views
adjective
Not able to run or be installed on the same system or machine in computing.
The software updates were incompatible with her old computer system.
Often appears as...
- incompatible software
- incompatible devices
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Unavailable for friendships, marriages or romantic relationships, due to having different likes, tastes or habits.
His taste in music is completely different from mine and we are just incompatible as a couple.
Often appears as...
- incompatible partners
- incompatible couples
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Conflict Potential
Use 'incompatible' to stress that two things can't coexist without issues or negative consequences.
Their political ideologies are incompatible, leading to frequent arguments.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tension
Indicates emotional stress when choices or obligations clash, not just practical problems.
Her career ambitions are incompatible with his laid-back lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/2Conflict Potential
Use 'incompatible' to stress that two things can't coexist without issues or negative consequences.
Their political ideologies are incompatible, leading to frequent arguments.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tension
Indicates emotional stress when choices or obligations clash, not just practical problems.
Her career ambitions are incompatible with his laid-back lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/2Conflict Potential
Use 'incompatible' to stress that two things can't coexist without issues or negative consequences.
Their political ideologies are incompatible, leading to frequent arguments.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tension
Indicates emotional stress when choices or obligations clash, not just practical problems.
Her career ambitions are incompatible with his laid-back lifestyle.
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Which country does the...
because it's so silly, but there's a belief amongst governments that the domestic agenda and the international agenda are incompatible and always will be. This is just nonsense. In my day job, I'm a policy adviser. I've spent the last 15 years or so advising governments around the world,
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What will a future...
consider whether the game has been designed and rigged so that they cannot care about privacy, and coming to the realization that these manipulations occur is already halfway through the process of being able to protect yourself. When someone tells you that privacy is incompatible
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Peter Attia: What if...
I had become insulin-resistant. You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the foods we eat, whether we burn it or store it. This is called fuel partitioning in the lingo. Now failure to produce enough insulin is incompatible with life.
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Why 30 is not the new 20...
and have two or three kids in a much shorter period of time. Many of these things are incompatible, and as research is just starting to show, simply harder and more stressful to do all at once in our 30s. The post-millennial midlife crisis isn't buying a red sports car.
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Bran Ferren: To create...
and the ravages of time to become what I believe is the longest continuously occupied building in history. Largely because of that visit, I came to understand that, contrary to what I was being told in school, the worlds of art and design were not, in fact, incompatible
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Nandan Nilekani's ideas...
It matters because this is a democracy. And it is important to prove that growth and democracy are not incompatible, that you can have a democracy, that you can have an open society, and you can have growth. It's important because if you solve these problems,
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Is life meaningless? And...
as two incompatible puzzle pieces, and considered trying to fit them together to be fundamentally absurd. This tension became the heart of Camus’ Philosophy of the Absurd, which argued that life is inherently futile. Exploring how to live without meaning
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Here's What We Know...
they already know with a symbol on the board we want to get a little bit more insight into each dolphin's cognitive process and seeing do they do the the behavior that they learned first do they do the compatible behaviors the incompatible
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How do we reason for a...
Rawls said that you know democracies inherently involved dialogue between incompatible but reasonable doctrines but there's the rub how are we going to decide whose views count as reasonable and whose views don't if we can't even
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A free world needs...
But it is incompatible with intolerance. Let us not become our own censors in the name of political correctness. We need to stand up, we need to push back, because if we don't, we will wake up tomorrow in a sanitized world,
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Which country does the...
because it's so silly, but there's a belief amongst governments that the domestic agenda and the international agenda are incompatible and always will be. This is just nonsense. In my day job, I'm a policy adviser. I've spent the last 15 years or so advising governments around the world,
Video examples
What will a future...
consider whether the game has been designed and rigged so that they cannot care about privacy, and coming to the realization that these manipulations occur is already halfway through the process of being able to protect yourself. When someone tells you that privacy is incompatible
Video examples
Peter Attia: What if...
I had become insulin-resistant. You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the foods we eat, whether we burn it or store it. This is called fuel partitioning in the lingo. Now failure to produce enough insulin is incompatible with life.
Video examples
Why 30 is not the new 20...
and have two or three kids in a much shorter period of time. Many of these things are incompatible, and as research is just starting to show, simply harder and more stressful to do all at once in our 30s. The post-millennial midlife crisis isn't buying a red sports car.
Video examples
Bran Ferren: To create...
and the ravages of time to become what I believe is the longest continuously occupied building in history. Largely because of that visit, I came to understand that, contrary to what I was being told in school, the worlds of art and design were not, in fact, incompatible
Video examples
Nandan Nilekani's ideas...
It matters because this is a democracy. And it is important to prove that growth and democracy are not incompatible, that you can have a democracy, that you can have an open society, and you can have growth. It's important because if you solve these problems,
Video examples
Is life meaningless? And...
as two incompatible puzzle pieces, and considered trying to fit them together to be fundamentally absurd. This tension became the heart of Camus’ Philosophy of the Absurd, which argued that life is inherently futile. Exploring how to live without meaning
Video examples
Here's What We Know...
they already know with a symbol on the board we want to get a little bit more insight into each dolphin's cognitive process and seeing do they do the the behavior that they learned first do they do the compatible behaviors the incompatible
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
Rawls said that you know democracies inherently involved dialogue between incompatible but reasonable doctrines but there's the rub how are we going to decide whose views count as reasonable and whose views don't if we can't even
Video examples
A free world needs...
But it is incompatible with intolerance. Let us not become our own censors in the name of political correctness. We need to stand up, we need to push back, because if we don't, we will wake up tomorrow in a sanitized world,
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Peter Higgs
British Physicist
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.
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Erich Fromm
American Psychologist
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Jay McInerney
American Writer
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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Keir Starmer
British Politician
From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.
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Gustav Stresemann
German Politician
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
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Gwen Ifill
American Journalist
I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.
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Zhang Ziyi
Chinese Actress
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Kris Kristofferson
American Musician
Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.
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Andre Braugher
American Actor
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Peter Higgs
British Physicist
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.
Quote examples
Erich Fromm
American Psychologist
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Quote examples
Jay McInerney
American Writer
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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Keir Starmer
British Politician
From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.
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Gustav Stresemann
German Politician
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
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Gwen Ifill
American Journalist
I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.
Quote examples
Zhang Ziyi
Chinese Actress
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Kris Kristofferson
American Musician
Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.
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Andre Braugher
American Actor
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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