incoherent

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in·co·her·ent /ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərənt◂ $ -koʊˈhɪr-/ AWL adjectiveadj

1 UNDERSTANDnot expressed or organized clearly, and therefore difficult to understand 条理不清的，紊乱的

an incoherent over-long action movie

情节混乱、冗长拖沓的动作片

He called the policy ‘incoherent and ill thought-out’.

他称该政策“条理不清、考虑不周”。

2 CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDspeaking in a way that cannot be understood, because you are drunk, feeling a strong emotion etc 语无伦次的

Ben, drunk and incoherent, slumped in a chair.

本醉得语无伦次，一屁股跌坐在一把椅子上。

—incoherently adverbadv

She began to mutter incoherently.

她开始含混不清地嘀咕起来。

—incoherence noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

incoherent• Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.• This is revealed most tellingly when informants are given a passage that appears incoherent.• She was clearly very ill, and at times her speech was incoherent.• For the first day, she made some sense but by the third day she was totally incoherent.• La Stampa admitted that the supergrass accounts were at times contradictory and incoherent.• Harris gave rambling, incoherent answers to questions about the case.• Rawlings gave rambling, incoherent answers.• Last fall, Republicans offered an incoherent critique.• Muttering something incoherent, he moved away.• He acknowledges that if he finds against Mrs. McLoughlin the law of emotional injury will then be incoherent in principle.• But the present, incoherent system does need reform.• One man was incoherent with grief.

in·co·her·ent adjectiveadj

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