Usually means: Not matching; out of place.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word incongruous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. incongruous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incongruous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incongruous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incongruous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incongruous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incongruous, incongruous: Wordnik
  7. incongruous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incongruous: Wiktionary
  9. incongruous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incongruous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incongruous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incongruous: Dictionary.com
  13. incongruous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incongruous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incongruous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incongruous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incongruous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incongruous: Rhymezone
  19. incongruous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incongruous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incongruous: Free Dictionary
  22. incongruous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incongruous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incongruous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incongruous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Incongruous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

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