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单词 incoherent
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Definition of incoherent in English:

incoherent

adjective ɪnkə(ʊ)ˈhɪər(ə)ntˌɪnkoʊˈhɪrənt
  • 1(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.

    (话语,文字)难以理解的,含混的,不清楚的

    he screamed some incoherent threat

    他喊了几句含含混混的威胁话。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable.
    • There is acute onset of delusions, hallucinations, incomprehensible or incoherent speech, or any combination of these.
    • As I noted in a previous post on this subject, the disclaimer that the school board has mandated be read by the science teachers is incredibly incoherent and confused.
    • Instead of boring you with one of my long, incoherent ramblings, I have decided to cut them up into shorter, incoherent ramblings, for your pleasure.
    • David muttered something incoherent and rude and scrambled to his feet, fumbling for the sword.
    • I'm very grateful that these incoherent ramblings find some resonance out there - we can all do with some validation can't we?
    • He just kept shivering and muttering incoherent fragments of distorted English.
    • Clearly unhappy with the attention he was receiving around that time, he gave a number of rambling, incoherent interviews that hinted at some of the darker recesses of his psyche.
    • Soon after, they found Hazel sitting by a tree, muttering incoherent threats.
    • At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
    • Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.
    • This is easy to believe about one of the funniest comedians around… a man who has raised the bar for incoherent muttering and elevated rambling to a high art.
    • Randolph later wrote an incoherent apology for his ‘diabolical, barbarous and wicked’ behaviour.
    • Williams subsided over his beer, muttering some kind of incoherent threat, as Leslie smiled.
    • The letter is long, rambling, abusive and incoherent.
    • Why do some actors write hilariously incoherent and over-the-top political commentary?
    • The incoherent ramblings of a man who spent a little too much time drinking the Ted Rall flavored kool-aid?
    • Well first of all I believe we have to change this language, which is incoherent.
    • Natural language is incoherent, and its underlying sensible structure is that of an infinite hierarchy of levels.
    • Their atrophied sense of integrity and largely incoherent rambling suggested that this would prove a far more difficult task than I first imagined.
    Synonyms
    unclear, confused, muddled, unintelligible, incomprehensible, hard to follow, disjointed, disconnected, unconnected, disordered, mixed up, garbled, jumbled, scrambled
    rambling, wandering, discursive, disorganized, uncoordinated, illogical
    inarticulate, mumbled, muttered, stuttered, stammered, slurred
    rare inchoate
    1. 1.1 (of a person) unable to speak intelligibly.
      (人)语无伦次的
      he was incoherent with sentiment

      他因伤感而语无伦次。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Though he was incoherent and loud, at times my impression was that he was not psychotic or manic.
      • The transcript later showed him to be confused and incoherent.
      • She's incoherent, crying, sobbing, and there is not a person in the room who doesn't know that it is all an act.
      • The report shows that he was incoherent and confused at the interview.
      • The following morning Miss Cadden's friends believed she had gone out to an exam and she was not seen until lunchtime, by which point she was rambling, incoherent and unable to help herself.
      • This encouraged speculation that a man so apparently incoherent couldn't have written his own lyrics.
      • The 25-year-old was described as confused and incoherent during his interrogation.
      • The rest were pretty much incoherent whenever they spoke.
      • He is too incoherent to tell and we leave him squatting outside the entrance to accident and emergency, smoking a roll-up and gobbing more blood on to the ground.
      • I am not usually as rambling and incoherent as I sound.
      • It's a fairly minor wound but he's quite incoherent.
      • The events of the passed few hours had left her confused and incoherent.
      • Of all his family, he is the incompetent, incoherent, emotional one.
      • I'm incoherent and sad and inarticulate and outraged.
      • She was incoherent and hadn't answered any questions.
      • Although he is verbally incoherent due to heavy medication, John has worked solidly for the last 10 years on this collection of abstract paintings.
      • We're not actually sure why they bothered, though: most branches of Tescos have their doorways cluttered by hordes of incoherent young people in ugly clothes getting in people's way.
      • So tepid arguments between mumbling, incoherent, misinformed gentlemen speckle the news programmes.
      • She knew she was rambling; she knew she was slightly incoherent; she didn't care.
      • But over time he is incoherent and contradictory.
      Synonyms
      delirious, raving, babbling, hysterical, irrational
    2. 1.2 Not logical or internally consistent.
      the film is ideologically incoherent

      这部电影的意识形态不合逻辑。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Still, in rebutting the charge that the Trinity is against reason, the philosopher may offer conceptual clarity to the skeptic and show that the doctrine is not incoherent or irrational.
      • In short it's a logically incoherent mishmash that seems to rumble along despite it's evident inconsistencies and flaws.
      • He argues, surprisingly, that the notion of enforcing God's law is logically incoherent.
      • Moreover the capital controversy revealed that important aspects of aggregate neoclassical theory were logically incoherent.
      • How is any of it illogical or internally incoherent?
      • The constant drive to divide sex into various incoherent binaries is intellectually specious, politically dubious, and completely unsexy.
      • But taken to its logical limit, the aim is incoherent.
      • White announces himself in favor of irrational and incoherent opinions.
      • The thought that the process theory is logically incoherent comes from two sources.
      • Remember, that chapter is written straight from his inner subconscious, so naturally, it'd all be a babble of incoherent thoughts.
      • Darin was right; I did feel better after babbling my incoherent misgivings.
      • But the aim of fusion is both internally incoherent and impossible.
      • One of its key arguments is internally incoherent.
      • I find him very inconsistent and intellectually his policy positions are often quite incoherent.
      • A law can do much practical good even if it is logically incoherent, and the ADA certainly falls in that category.
      • We didn't really take it to its logical conclusion, so it's sprawling and incoherent and needs working with some scissors.
      • At least in this case, the valid phrases are much commoner than the logically incoherent ones.
      • I have not found that the ordinary logical mind has in either ancient or modern literature been able to find them internally incoherent.
      • Given the facts in this case, the jury's verdict is logically incoherent.
      • Of course, that includes your ‘base’ here in the US too so you'll have to pardon us for our consistency and ask yourselves why we find you incoherent on this matter.
  • 2Physics
    (of waves) having no definite or stable phase relationship.

    〔物理〕(波)无明确相位关系的,无稳定相位关系的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This means that coherent spin waves will appear below the temperature at which magnetic ordering sets in, while a transverse incoherent component will exist above.
    • Similarly, incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering experiments provide information on the mean-square displacements of the hydrogen atoms.
    • In particular, in this work, neutron elastic incoherent scattering was utilized to study the dynamics of the lipoplexes as a function of DNA concentration.
    • We present elastic and inelastic incoherent neutron scattering data from a series of trehalose glasses diluted with glycerol.
    • Similarly, the blue structural colors of avian skin were long hypothesized to be produced by incoherent Rayleigh or Tyndall scattering.

Derivatives

  • incoherency

  • nounPlural incoherencies
    • The best man said nothing to assuage the ensuing lack of confidence, nor did Sandra, the bride's friend from our table, who got up and mumbled a few incoherencies about nightclubs and alcohol.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although her father seemed to be in good physical condition, the measure of his incoherency was alarming.
      • He only got this job because we mistook his incoherencies and vagueness for nerves.
      • They get suckered into the incoherency and think it's pure brilliance, when in reality, it's a waste of two hours.
      • The trouble is that one is likely to think either that there is no plausible general argument in favor of the existence of such processes or that there is some logical incoherency in the very idea of them.
  • incoherently

  • adverb ɪnkə(ʊ)ˈhɪərəntli
    • I was trying my best not to speak too incoherently, but after that little sleep I usually struggle…
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Have to put up with close proximity to aggressive violent old man incoherently swearing at everyone onboard for first 15 minutes.
      • I tend to get extremely nervous when speaking in public, so it will be a rare opportunity to see me sweat, shake, dribble incoherently and squeak a lot.
      • I am, as usual, dog tired and my back has been absolutely killing me over the last few days, so I'm going to go lie down and moan incoherently.
      • I was having a hard time getting moving in the morning, so I was speaking pretty slowly and incoherently, for a little bit.

Definition of incoherent in US English:

incoherent

adjectiveˌinkōˈhirəntˌɪnkoʊˈhɪrənt
  • 1(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.

    (话语,文字)难以理解的,含混的,不清楚的

    he screamed some incoherent threat

    他喊了几句含含混混的威胁话。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Randolph later wrote an incoherent apology for his ‘diabolical, barbarous and wicked’ behaviour.
    • Instead of boring you with one of my long, incoherent ramblings, I have decided to cut them up into shorter, incoherent ramblings, for your pleasure.
    • The letter is long, rambling, abusive and incoherent.
    • This is easy to believe about one of the funniest comedians around… a man who has raised the bar for incoherent muttering and elevated rambling to a high art.
    • At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
    • Williams subsided over his beer, muttering some kind of incoherent threat, as Leslie smiled.
    • As I noted in a previous post on this subject, the disclaimer that the school board has mandated be read by the science teachers is incredibly incoherent and confused.
    • Why do some actors write hilariously incoherent and over-the-top political commentary?
    • Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.
    • David muttered something incoherent and rude and scrambled to his feet, fumbling for the sword.
    • Their atrophied sense of integrity and largely incoherent rambling suggested that this would prove a far more difficult task than I first imagined.
    • He just kept shivering and muttering incoherent fragments of distorted English.
    • Natural language is incoherent, and its underlying sensible structure is that of an infinite hierarchy of levels.
    • There is acute onset of delusions, hallucinations, incomprehensible or incoherent speech, or any combination of these.
    • Clearly unhappy with the attention he was receiving around that time, he gave a number of rambling, incoherent interviews that hinted at some of the darker recesses of his psyche.
    • Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable.
    • Well first of all I believe we have to change this language, which is incoherent.
    • I'm very grateful that these incoherent ramblings find some resonance out there - we can all do with some validation can't we?
    • Soon after, they found Hazel sitting by a tree, muttering incoherent threats.
    • The incoherent ramblings of a man who spent a little too much time drinking the Ted Rall flavored kool-aid?
    Synonyms
    unclear, confused, muddled, unintelligible, incomprehensible, hard to follow, disjointed, disconnected, unconnected, disordered, mixed up, garbled, jumbled, scrambled
    1. 1.1 (of a person) unable to speak intelligibly.
      (人)语无伦次的
      I splutter several more times before becoming incoherent
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The transcript later showed him to be confused and incoherent.
      • We're not actually sure why they bothered, though: most branches of Tescos have their doorways cluttered by hordes of incoherent young people in ugly clothes getting in people's way.
      • She was incoherent and hadn't answered any questions.
      • The events of the passed few hours had left her confused and incoherent.
      • Though he was incoherent and loud, at times my impression was that he was not psychotic or manic.
      • But over time he is incoherent and contradictory.
      • She's incoherent, crying, sobbing, and there is not a person in the room who doesn't know that it is all an act.
      • I'm incoherent and sad and inarticulate and outraged.
      • I am not usually as rambling and incoherent as I sound.
      • The report shows that he was incoherent and confused at the interview.
      • Although he is verbally incoherent due to heavy medication, John has worked solidly for the last 10 years on this collection of abstract paintings.
      • The 25-year-old was described as confused and incoherent during his interrogation.
      • The rest were pretty much incoherent whenever they spoke.
      • The following morning Miss Cadden's friends believed she had gone out to an exam and she was not seen until lunchtime, by which point she was rambling, incoherent and unable to help herself.
      • He is too incoherent to tell and we leave him squatting outside the entrance to accident and emergency, smoking a roll-up and gobbing more blood on to the ground.
      • So tepid arguments between mumbling, incoherent, misinformed gentlemen speckle the news programmes.
      • She knew she was rambling; she knew she was slightly incoherent; she didn't care.
      • It's a fairly minor wound but he's quite incoherent.
      • Of all his family, he is the incompetent, incoherent, emotional one.
      • This encouraged speculation that a man so apparently incoherent couldn't have written his own lyrics.
      Synonyms
      delirious, raving, babbling, hysterical, irrational
    2. 1.2 (of an ideology, policy, or system) internally inconsistent; illogical.
      (意识形态,政策,体系)缺乏内部一致性的;不合逻辑的
      the film is ideologically incoherent

      这部电影的意识形态不合逻辑。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • How is any of it illogical or internally incoherent?
      • The thought that the process theory is logically incoherent comes from two sources.
      • White announces himself in favor of irrational and incoherent opinions.
      • Given the facts in this case, the jury's verdict is logically incoherent.
      • Of course, that includes your ‘base’ here in the US too so you'll have to pardon us for our consistency and ask yourselves why we find you incoherent on this matter.
      • Moreover the capital controversy revealed that important aspects of aggregate neoclassical theory were logically incoherent.
      • I find him very inconsistent and intellectually his policy positions are often quite incoherent.
      • Still, in rebutting the charge that the Trinity is against reason, the philosopher may offer conceptual clarity to the skeptic and show that the doctrine is not incoherent or irrational.
      • Darin was right; I did feel better after babbling my incoherent misgivings.
      • We didn't really take it to its logical conclusion, so it's sprawling and incoherent and needs working with some scissors.
      • In short it's a logically incoherent mishmash that seems to rumble along despite it's evident inconsistencies and flaws.
      • Remember, that chapter is written straight from his inner subconscious, so naturally, it'd all be a babble of incoherent thoughts.
      • One of its key arguments is internally incoherent.
      • The constant drive to divide sex into various incoherent binaries is intellectually specious, politically dubious, and completely unsexy.
      • At least in this case, the valid phrases are much commoner than the logically incoherent ones.
      • But the aim of fusion is both internally incoherent and impossible.
      • But taken to its logical limit, the aim is incoherent.
      • I have not found that the ordinary logical mind has in either ancient or modern literature been able to find them internally incoherent.
      • He argues, surprisingly, that the notion of enforcing God's law is logically incoherent.
      • A law can do much practical good even if it is logically incoherent, and the ADA certainly falls in that category.
  • 2Physics
    (of waves) having no definite or stable phase relationship.

    〔物理〕(波)无明确相位关系的,无稳定相位关系的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Similarly, incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering experiments provide information on the mean-square displacements of the hydrogen atoms.
    • We present elastic and inelastic incoherent neutron scattering data from a series of trehalose glasses diluted with glycerol.
    • In particular, in this work, neutron elastic incoherent scattering was utilized to study the dynamics of the lipoplexes as a function of DNA concentration.
    • This means that coherent spin waves will appear below the temperature at which magnetic ordering sets in, while a transverse incoherent component will exist above.
    • Similarly, the blue structural colors of avian skin were long hypothesized to be produced by incoherent Rayleigh or Tyndall scattering.
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