Definition of inconsistent in English:

inconsistent

adjective ɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)ntˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nt

1Not staying the same throughout.
the quality of the material was often inconsistent
Example sentencesExamples
- The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well.
- We all have inconsistent beliefs because we are not always aware of everything our beliefs entail.
- Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical.
- A demon possessed person cannot be reasoned with… having an illogical, inconsistent and brute-like thought process.
- All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design.
- What we say is that old-Earthers are inconsistent in their belief in an old Earth and a literal Adam and literal Fall.
- I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies.
- The party cannot afford to choose leaders whose conduct and principles are inconsistent and always seem to be ready to move with the wind.
- Studies on the impact of anger and worry on sexual functioning are lacking and present some inconsistent results.
- It seems a lonely place - meaningless perhaps - but it doesn't seem logically impossible or physically inconsistent in any way.
- Mr Gill referred us to a number of authorities which, he submitted, demonstrated that unfair and inconsistent treatment provided grounds for judicial review.
- The present law is foolish, outdated, inconsistent, and ridiculous.
- His evidence was at times exaggerated, inconsistent and illogical when it came to describing the quality of some aspects of his construction.
- His excuses for his unusual behaviour became increasingly inconsistent.
- Miller's inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways.
- These foolish, inconsistent definitions of race are the ones that must be exposed and discarded.
- Players must collect evidence, weed through inconsistent testimonies, and overcome corrupt agendas to ensure that justice prevails.
- Because human rights concepts tend to be very elastic and open-ended, they are capable of being given a wide range of meanings, including inconsistent meanings.
- Further, the IAT adopt an internally inconsistent and irrational approach to the said issues.
- As we remarked when contrasting knowledge with belief, it is inconsistent to say ‘I know but I may be wrong’.
1. 1.1 Acting at variance with one's own principles or former behaviour.
  背离原则的；与以前行为不一致的
  parents can become inconsistent and lacking in control over their children
  父母会背离原则，对孩子缺乏管束。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors.
  This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition.
  The paradox of privacy on line is that Internet users are perplexingly inconsistent as between their attitudes and their behaviour.
  To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable.
  That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions.
  Synonyms
  erratic, changeable, unpredictable, variable, varying, changing, inconstant, unstable, irregular, fluctuating, unsteady, unsettled, uneven
  self-contradictory, contradictory, paradoxical
  capricious, fickle, flighty, whimsical, unreliable, undependable, mercurial, volatile, ever-changing, protean, chameleon-like, chameleonic
  informal blowing hot and cold, up and down
  technical labile
  rare changeful, fluctuant
2inconsistent withNot compatible or in keeping with.
与…不一致的
he had done nothing inconsistent with his morality
他没有做过任何违背自身道德观的事情。
Example sentencesExamples
- In other words, men may not turn to others for help because this behaviour is inconsistent with male gender-role expectations.
- It is inconsistent with the principles of fundamental justice to deny a legal source of marijuana to people who have been granted ATPs and licences to produce.
- It shows a degree of intolerance, inconsistent with the principles of our democratic polity.
- The Bill before the House seeks to put into law the important principle that the practice of fur farming is inconsistent with ethical agricultural behaviour.
- At this scale, politics has to operate in a way which sometimes is incompatible and inconsistent with micro-scale politics.
- Such investigations are accordingly inconsistent with the principle of proportionality.
- Evidently, these principles are not inconsistent with one another.
- Your alternative argument is fundamentally inconsistent with your principal argument, is it not?
- The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
- The existing tariff schemes are inconsistent with the principles of deeper integration more specifically that of the Customs Union.
- Excluding Serbia would be inconsistent with our principles of inclusiveness.
- This is grossly inappropriate behaviour and completely inconsistent with the image of honesty and integrity to which she likes to pretend.
- Second, a body of law or a certain legal principle may be inconsistent with a government's perception of what is in the public interest.
- This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection.
- That would have been quite inconsistent with the whole nature of a waiver as a discretion to be exercised on the merits of the individual case, and with the Waivers Policy.
- In my view, their evidence is completely incompatible and inconsistent with such a portrayal.
- He said it was inconsistent with the principles of British justice to keep defendants shivering before their case.
- For instance, you might have covert tapes of conversations in which he has said different things inconsistent with his current proposed evidence.
- It is grossly inconsistent with the principles of responsible government for the opposition to lack a way to express no confidence in the Executive.
- This difference has been interpreted as inconsistent with a mechanism based on filament elasticity.
Synonyms
incompatible with, conflicting with, in conflict with, at odds with, at variance with, differing from, different to, in disagreement with, disagreeing with, not in accord with, contrary to, in opposition to, opposed to, irreconcilable with, not in keeping with, out of keeping with, out of place with, out of step with, not in harmony with, incongruous with, discordant with, discrepant with
antithetical to, diametrically opposed to
rare disconsonant with, inconsonant with, repugnant to, oppugnant to

Definition of inconsistent in US English:

inconsistent

adjectiveˌinkənˈsist(ə)ntˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nt

1Not staying the same throughout.
the quality of the material was often inconsistent
Example sentencesExamples
- What we say is that old-Earthers are inconsistent in their belief in an old Earth and a literal Adam and literal Fall.
- The party cannot afford to choose leaders whose conduct and principles are inconsistent and always seem to be ready to move with the wind.
- His evidence was at times exaggerated, inconsistent and illogical when it came to describing the quality of some aspects of his construction.
- A demon possessed person cannot be reasoned with… having an illogical, inconsistent and brute-like thought process.
- Studies on the impact of anger and worry on sexual functioning are lacking and present some inconsistent results.
- Mr Gill referred us to a number of authorities which, he submitted, demonstrated that unfair and inconsistent treatment provided grounds for judicial review.
- His excuses for his unusual behaviour became increasingly inconsistent.
- The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well.
- These foolish, inconsistent definitions of race are the ones that must be exposed and discarded.
- I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies.
- Miller's inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways.
- We all have inconsistent beliefs because we are not always aware of everything our beliefs entail.
- Players must collect evidence, weed through inconsistent testimonies, and overcome corrupt agendas to ensure that justice prevails.
- Further, the IAT adopt an internally inconsistent and irrational approach to the said issues.
- The present law is foolish, outdated, inconsistent, and ridiculous.
- As we remarked when contrasting knowledge with belief, it is inconsistent to say ‘I know but I may be wrong’.
- Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical.
- All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design.
- Because human rights concepts tend to be very elastic and open-ended, they are capable of being given a wide range of meanings, including inconsistent meanings.
- It seems a lonely place - meaningless perhaps - but it doesn't seem logically impossible or physically inconsistent in any way.
1. 1.1 Acting at variance with one's own principles or former conduct.
  背离原则的；与以前行为不一致的
  parents can become inconsistent and lacking in control over their children
  父母会背离原则，对孩子缺乏管束。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions.
  To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable.
  I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors.
  The paradox of privacy on line is that Internet users are perplexingly inconsistent as between their attitudes and their behaviour.
  This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition.
  Synonyms
  erratic, changeable, unpredictable, variable, varying, changing, inconstant, unstable, irregular, fluctuating, unsteady, unsettled, uneven
2. 1.2inconsistent with Not compatible or in keeping with.
  与…不一致的
  he had done nothing inconsistent with his morality
  他没有做过任何违背自身道德观的事情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Your alternative argument is fundamentally inconsistent with your principal argument, is it not?
  It shows a degree of intolerance, inconsistent with the principles of our democratic polity.
  For instance, you might have covert tapes of conversations in which he has said different things inconsistent with his current proposed evidence.
  This difference has been interpreted as inconsistent with a mechanism based on filament elasticity.
  That would have been quite inconsistent with the whole nature of a waiver as a discretion to be exercised on the merits of the individual case, and with the Waivers Policy.
  Second, a body of law or a certain legal principle may be inconsistent with a government's perception of what is in the public interest.
  He said it was inconsistent with the principles of British justice to keep defendants shivering before their case.
  In other words, men may not turn to others for help because this behaviour is inconsistent with male gender-role expectations.
  This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection.
  It is grossly inconsistent with the principles of responsible government for the opposition to lack a way to express no confidence in the Executive.
  The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
  The existing tariff schemes are inconsistent with the principles of deeper integration more specifically that of the Customs Union.
  Excluding Serbia would be inconsistent with our principles of inclusiveness.
  Such investigations are accordingly inconsistent with the principle of proportionality.
  Evidently, these principles are not inconsistent with one another.
  This is grossly inappropriate behaviour and completely inconsistent with the image of honesty and integrity to which she likes to pretend.
  At this scale, politics has to operate in a way which sometimes is incompatible and inconsistent with micro-scale politics.
  In my view, their evidence is completely incompatible and inconsistent with such a portrayal.
  It is inconsistent with the principles of fundamental justice to deny a legal source of marijuana to people who have been granted ATPs and licences to produce.
  The Bill before the House seeks to put into law the important principle that the practice of fur farming is inconsistent with ethical agricultural behaviour.
  Synonyms
  incompatible with, conflicting with, in conflict with, at odds with, at variance with, differing from, different to, in disagreement with, disagreeing with, not in accord with, contrary to, in opposition to, opposed to, irreconcilable with, not in keeping with, out of keeping with, out of place with, out of step with, not in harmony with, incongruous with, discordant with, discrepant with

单词	inconsistent
释义	Definition of inconsistent in English: inconsistent adjective ɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)ntˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nt 1Not staying the same throughout. the quality of the material was often inconsistent Example sentencesExamples The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well. We all have inconsistent beliefs because we are not always aware of everything our beliefs entail. Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical. A demon possessed person cannot be reasoned with… having an illogical, inconsistent and brute-like thought process. All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design. What we say is that old-Earthers are inconsistent in their belief in an old Earth and a literal Adam and literal Fall. I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies. The party cannot afford to choose leaders whose conduct and principles are inconsistent and always seem to be ready to move with the wind. Studies on the impact of anger and worry on sexual functioning are lacking and present some inconsistent results. It seems a lonely place - meaningless perhaps - but it doesn't seem logically impossible or physically inconsistent in any way. Mr Gill referred us to a number of authorities which, he submitted, demonstrated that unfair and inconsistent treatment provided grounds for judicial review. The present law is foolish, outdated, inconsistent, and ridiculous. His evidence was at times exaggerated, inconsistent and illogical when it came to describing the quality of some aspects of his construction. His excuses for his unusual behaviour became increasingly inconsistent. Miller's inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways. These foolish, inconsistent definitions of race are the ones that must be exposed and discarded. Players must collect evidence, weed through inconsistent testimonies, and overcome corrupt agendas to ensure that justice prevails. Because human rights concepts tend to be very elastic and open-ended, they are capable of being given a wide range of meanings, including inconsistent meanings. Further, the IAT adopt an internally inconsistent and irrational approach to the said issues. As we remarked when contrasting knowledge with belief, it is inconsistent to say ‘I know but I may be wrong’. 1.1 Acting at variance with one's own principles or former behaviour. 背离原则的；与以前行为不一致的 parents can become inconsistent and lacking in control over their children 父母会背离原则，对孩子缺乏管束。 Example sentencesExamples I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors. This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition. The paradox of privacy on line is that Internet users are perplexingly inconsistent as between their attitudes and their behaviour. To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable. That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions. Synonyms erratic, changeable, unpredictable, variable, varying, changing, inconstant, unstable, irregular, fluctuating, unsteady, unsettled, uneven self-contradictory, contradictory, paradoxical capricious, fickle, flighty, whimsical, unreliable, undependable, mercurial, volatile, ever-changing, protean, chameleon-like, chameleonic informal blowing hot and cold, up and down technical labile rare changeful, fluctuant 2inconsistent withNot compatible or in keeping with. 与…不一致的 he had done nothing inconsistent with his morality 他没有做过任何违背自身道德观的事情。 Example sentencesExamples In other words, men may not turn to others for help because this behaviour is inconsistent with male gender-role expectations. It is inconsistent with the principles of fundamental justice to deny a legal source of marijuana to people who have been granted ATPs and licences to produce. It shows a degree of intolerance, inconsistent with the principles of our democratic polity. The Bill before the House seeks to put into law the important principle that the practice of fur farming is inconsistent with ethical agricultural behaviour. At this scale, politics has to operate in a way which sometimes is incompatible and inconsistent with micro-scale politics. Such investigations are accordingly inconsistent with the principle of proportionality. Evidently, these principles are not inconsistent with one another. Your alternative argument is fundamentally inconsistent with your principal argument, is it not? The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The existing tariff schemes are inconsistent with the principles of deeper integration more specifically that of the Customs Union. Excluding Serbia would be inconsistent with our principles of inclusiveness. This is grossly inappropriate behaviour and completely inconsistent with the image of honesty and integrity to which she likes to pretend. Second, a body of law or a certain legal principle may be inconsistent with a government's perception of what is in the public interest. This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection. That would have been quite inconsistent with the whole nature of a waiver as a discretion to be exercised on the merits of the individual case, and with the Waivers Policy. In my view, their evidence is completely incompatible and inconsistent with such a portrayal. He said it was inconsistent with the principles of British justice to keep defendants shivering before their case. For instance, you might have covert tapes of conversations in which he has said different things inconsistent with his current proposed evidence. It is grossly inconsistent with the principles of responsible government for the opposition to lack a way to express no confidence in the Executive. This difference has been interpreted as inconsistent with a mechanism based on filament elasticity. Synonyms incompatible with, conflicting with, in conflict with, at odds with, at variance with, differing from, different to, in disagreement with, disagreeing with, not in accord with, contrary to, in opposition to, opposed to, irreconcilable with, not in keeping with, out of keeping with, out of place with, out of step with, not in harmony with, incongruous with, discordant with, discrepant with antithetical to, diametrically opposed to rare disconsonant with, inconsonant with, repugnant to, oppugnant to Definition of inconsistent in US English: inconsistent adjectiveˌinkənˈsist(ə)ntˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nt 1Not staying the same throughout. the quality of the material was often inconsistent Example sentencesExamples What we say is that old-Earthers are inconsistent in their belief in an old Earth and a literal Adam and literal Fall. The party cannot afford to choose leaders whose conduct and principles are inconsistent and always seem to be ready to move with the wind. His evidence was at times exaggerated, inconsistent and illogical when it came to describing the quality of some aspects of his construction. A demon possessed person cannot be reasoned with… having an illogical, inconsistent and brute-like thought process. Studies on the impact of anger and worry on sexual functioning are lacking and present some inconsistent results. Mr Gill referred us to a number of authorities which, he submitted, demonstrated that unfair and inconsistent treatment provided grounds for judicial review. His excuses for his unusual behaviour became increasingly inconsistent. The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well. These foolish, inconsistent definitions of race are the ones that must be exposed and discarded. I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies. Miller's inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways. We all have inconsistent beliefs because we are not always aware of everything our beliefs entail. Players must collect evidence, weed through inconsistent testimonies, and overcome corrupt agendas to ensure that justice prevails. Further, the IAT adopt an internally inconsistent and irrational approach to the said issues. The present law is foolish, outdated, inconsistent, and ridiculous. As we remarked when contrasting knowledge with belief, it is inconsistent to say ‘I know but I may be wrong’. Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical. All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design. Because human rights concepts tend to be very elastic and open-ended, they are capable of being given a wide range of meanings, including inconsistent meanings. It seems a lonely place - meaningless perhaps - but it doesn't seem logically impossible or physically inconsistent in any way. 1.1 Acting at variance with one's own principles or former conduct. 背离原则的；与以前行为不一致的 parents can become inconsistent and lacking in control over their children 父母会背离原则，对孩子缺乏管束。 Example sentencesExamples That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions. To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable. I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors. The paradox of privacy on line is that Internet users are perplexingly inconsistent as between their attitudes and their behaviour. This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition. Synonyms erratic, changeable, unpredictable, variable, varying, changing, inconstant, unstable, irregular, fluctuating, unsteady, unsettled, uneven 1.2inconsistent with Not compatible or in keeping with. 与…不一致的 he had done nothing inconsistent with his morality 他没有做过任何违背自身道德观的事情。 Example sentencesExamples Your alternative argument is fundamentally inconsistent with your principal argument, is it not? It shows a degree of intolerance, inconsistent with the principles of our democratic polity. For instance, you might have covert tapes of conversations in which he has said different things inconsistent with his current proposed evidence. This difference has been interpreted as inconsistent with a mechanism based on filament elasticity. That would have been quite inconsistent with the whole nature of a waiver as a discretion to be exercised on the merits of the individual case, and with the Waivers Policy. Second, a body of law or a certain legal principle may be inconsistent with a government's perception of what is in the public interest. He said it was inconsistent with the principles of British justice to keep defendants shivering before their case. In other words, men may not turn to others for help because this behaviour is inconsistent with male gender-role expectations. This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection. It is grossly inconsistent with the principles of responsible government for the opposition to lack a way to express no confidence in the Executive. The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The existing tariff schemes are inconsistent with the principles of deeper integration more specifically that of the Customs Union. Excluding Serbia would be inconsistent with our principles of inclusiveness. Such investigations are accordingly inconsistent with the principle of proportionality. Evidently, these principles are not inconsistent with one another. This is grossly inappropriate behaviour and completely inconsistent with the image of honesty and integrity to which she likes to pretend. At this scale, politics has to operate in a way which sometimes is incompatible and inconsistent with micro-scale politics. In my view, their evidence is completely incompatible and inconsistent with such a portrayal. It is inconsistent with the principles of fundamental justice to deny a legal source of marijuana to people who have been granted ATPs and licences to produce. The Bill before the House seeks to put into law the important principle that the practice of fur farming is inconsistent with ethical agricultural behaviour. Synonyms incompatible with, conflicting with, in conflict with, at odds with, at variance with, differing from, different to, in disagreement with, disagreeing with, not in accord with, contrary to, in opposition to, opposed to, irreconcilable with, not in keeping with, out of keeping with, out of place with, out of step with, not in harmony with, incongruous with, discordant with, discrepant with
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