inconsistent
Etymology
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Etymology
From in- + consistent.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
inconsistent
- Not consistent:
- Antonyms: 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, Robert Aspland, editor, The Christian Reformer:
- 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 [...]”
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
- French: incohérent, incompatible
- German: inkonsistent, widersprüchlich
- Portuguese: inconsistente
- Russian: рассогласованный
- Spanish: inconsistente, inconsecuente
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