Incoherent - English meaning

adjective

(of a person) unable to think clearly; bewildered.

Usage examples:

She was utterly confused about what had happened

verb

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.

Usage examples:

Past and present blurred together, confusing her still further

adjective

Unable to think clearly or to understand something

Usage examples:

Grandpa gets pretty confused sometimes, and doesn't even know what day it is., i'm a bit confused. …

adjective

Having had a connection broken.

Usage examples:

He expected the disconnected phone to start ringing

verb

Break the connection of or between.

Usage examples:

If the axle unit is partially disconnected from the body, the car should not be driven

adjective

Not related, or not having any clear purpose or pattern

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These are disconnected events, of no wider significance., disconnected thoughts, we have become dis…

adjective

Digressing from subject to subject.

Usage examples:

Students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose

adjective

Involving discussion

Usage examples:

A discursive essay, a discursive writer/speech

adjective

Talking about or dealing with subjects that are only slightly connected with the main subject for longer than necessary

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A discursive writer/speech

adjective

Lacking a coherent sequence or connection.

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Piecing together disjointed fragments of information

verb

Disturb the cohesion or organization of.

Usage examples:

The loss of the area disjointed military plans

adjective

(esp. of words or ideas) not well connected or well ordered, and therefore often confusing

Usage examples:

She gave a disjointed account of getting lost in the woods.

adjective

Not neatly arranged; confused and untidy.

Usage examples:

She went to comb her disordered hair

verb

Disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of.

Usage examples:

They are disordering the political landscape

adjective

Not normal, in a way that is unhealthy

Usage examples:

Disordered thinking/eating, she has been diagnosed as "mentally disordered.", the photograph shows …

adjective

(of a message, sound, or transmission) confused and distorted; unclear.

Usage examples:

I got a garbled set of directions

verb

Reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.

Usage examples:

The connection was awful and kept garbling his voice

adjective

(of something said) confused and unclear, or giving a false idea

Usage examples:

He left a garbled message on my answering machine.

idiom

To be so good that it is not likely that anyone or anything that comes after will be as good

Usage examples:

His presidency was very successful - it'll be a hard act to follow.

adjective

Not able to be understood; not intelligible.

Usage examples:

A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office

verb

Mix up in a confused or untidy way.

Usage examples:

A drawer full of letters jumbled together

noun

An untidy collection or pile of things.

Usage examples:

The books were in a chaotic jumble

verb

Past simple and past participle of jumble

Usage examples:

Her clothes were all jumbled up/together in the suitcase.

adjective

Not arranged in order; untidy.

Usage examples:

The muddled display of pictures has been taken down

verb

Bring into a disordered or confusing state.

Usage examples:

I fear he may have muddled the message

adjective

(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.

Usage examples:

A rambling six-hour speech

noun

The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure.

Usage examples:

A rambling club

verb

Walk for pleasure in the countryside.

Usage examples:

I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing

verb

Make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet.

Usage examples:

We scrambled over the damp boulders

noun

A difficult or hurried clamber up or over something.

Usage examples:

An undignified scramble over the wall

noun

An emergency take-off by fighter aircraft.

Usage examples:

The scramble might be a training exercise or it might not

adjective

Not easy to see, hear, or understand.

Usage examples:

The motive for this killing is unclear

adjective

Not obvious or easy to see or know

Usage examples:

[ + question word ] it’s unclear what actually happened that night., i’m unclear about a couple of …

adjective

Not joined together or to something else.

Usage examples:

The earth wire was left unconnected

adjective

Not connected; not related

Usage examples:

It's no longer possible to argue that crime is unconnected with unemployment., a series of apparent…

adjective

Impossible to understand.

Usage examples:

Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans

adjective

(of speech or writing) not clear enough to be understood

adjective

Travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant.

Usage examples:

A wandering preacher

verb

Walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way.

Usage examples:

I wandered through the narrow streets