different between variegated vs incongruous

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: vâr???g?'t?d, IPA^(key): /?ve??????e?t?d/, /?væ?i.???e?t?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vâr???g?'t?d, IPA^(key): /?ve??????e?t?d/

Adjective

variegated (comparative more variegated, superlative most variegated)

1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.

   Synonyms: patterned; see also Thesaurus:marked

2. (by extension) Very colorful.

   Synonyms: motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Related terms

• variegate

Translations

Verb

variegated

1. simple past tense and past participle of variegate

English

Etymology

From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k?n.???u.?s/, /?n?k??.??u.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?k?n.??u.?s/, /???k??.??u.?s/

Adjective

incongruous (comparative more incongruous, superlative most incongruous)

1. Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ch. 34:

     [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

   • 1912, Jack London, A Son Of The Sun, ch. 1:

     Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

   • 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)[1]

     For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.

2. (mathematics) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

   20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

Derived terms

• incongruously
• incongruousness

Synonyms

• incongruitous

Related terms

• incongruence
• incongruent
• incongruity

Translations