word | incoherent |
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definition | (1) Unclear or difficult to understand. (2) Loosely organized or inconsistent. |
eg_sentence | The police had found him in an abandoned warehouse, and they reported that he was dirty, hungry, and incoherent. |
explanation | Incoherent is the opposite of coherent, and both commonly refer to words and thoughts. Just as coherent means well ordered and clear, incoherent means disordered and hard to follow. Incoherence in speech may result from emotional stress, especially anxiety or anger. Incoherence in writing may simply result from poor planning; a twelve-page term paper that isn't written until the night before it's due will generally suffer from incoherence |
IPA | ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪrənt |
Tags: mwvb::unit:9, mwvb::unit:9:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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