- not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- antagonistic: used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- uncongenial: not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
- incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- contrastive: of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
- ill-sorted: not easy to combine harmoniously
- discrepant: not compatible with other facts
- inappropriate: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior"
- Of two things: impossible to coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing
- (Incompatibility) Descriptive of two or more materials which are not suitable to be used together.
- (Incompatibility) The inability of a HUSBAND AND WIFE to cohabit in a marital relationship.
- (INCOMPATIBILITY) coatings or components which cannot be mixed. Usually results in the separation of solid particles, cloudiness or turbidity.
- (Incompatibility (Materials to Avoid)) Strong oxidizing agents, strong acids
- (Incompatibility) Inability to mix two powders without getting a different surface appearance, such as gloss reduction or craters.
- (Incompatibility) The destruction of red blood cells that results from the combination of two blood types
- (incompatibility) 1. Selectively-restricted mating competence, which limits fertilization, such as lack of proper functions by otherwise normal pollen grains or certain pistils, a condition that may be caused by a variety of factors.
- (incompatibility) A state of incongruity in goals, values, or expectations between two or more individuals.
- (incompatibility) Unsuitability for combination, often due to antagonistic action.
- of mating types, strains, etc., not cross-fertile. cf. compatible.
- (adj) opposed in nature, not able to live or work together
- Software which does not normally work in a similar fashion to other competing applications
- no similarity between the donor's and recipient's blood type or kidneys
- an element which "prefers" to be in the liquid state; last to crystallize out of a melt; e.g., most of the REEs are incompatible
- The term applied to two substances to indicate that one material cannot be mixed with the other without the possibility of a dangerous reaction.
- Incapable of being mixed or used simultaneously without undergoing chemical or physical changes or producing undesirable effects (RCN, 2003).