different between unintelligible vs inconsistent
unintelligible
English
Etymology
un- +? intelligible.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?n?t?l?d??b?l/
Adjective
unintelligible (comparative more unintelligible, superlative most unintelligible)
- Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
- 1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply):
- And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them.
- 1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply):
Synonyms
- inscrutable, unexplainable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Antonyms
- intelligible; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
Translations
See also
- incomprehensible
- unfathomable
- fathomless
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inconsistent
English
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nk?n?s?st?nt/
Adjective
inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)
- Not consistent:
- Antonym: consistent
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
- He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
- 1862, The Christian Reformer (ed. Robert Aspland):
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
- “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
Derived terms
- inconsistently
Related terms
- inconsistency
Translations
Anagrams
- nonscientist
Catalan
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.kon.sis?tent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.kun.sis?ten/
Adjective
inconsistent (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)
- inconsistent
- Antonym: consistent
Related terms
- inconsistència
Further reading
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconsistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
From French inconsistant
Adjective
inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistent?, masculine plural inconsisten?i, feminine and neuter plural inconsistente)
- inconsistent
Declension
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