strange, and not suitable in a particular situation:
Such traditional methods seem incongruous in our technical age. * The two of them made an incongruous couple.
incongruity noun [U,C] (plural incongruities):
She was struck by the incongruity of the situation.
incongruously adverb:
incongruously dressed
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is incongruous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, incongruous is tagged as adjective.
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