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incommensurate collapse: (often followed by `with') not corresponding in size or degree or extent; "a reward incommensurate with his effort"

incommensurable collapse: not having a common factor; impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence

anomalous collapse: deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

ambivalent collapse: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; "was ambivalent about having children"

inconsequent collapse: lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

ironic collapse: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

impossible collapse: something that cannot be done; "his assignment verged on the impossible"; not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation"; totally unlikely; used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence"

ambiguous collapse: having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"; having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"

incompatible collapse: not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"; incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification; used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture

barred collapse: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured"

equivocal collapse: uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"; open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"; open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson

irreconcilable collapse: impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences"

hopeless collapse: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"; without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"; certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"; of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

absurd collapse: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman; incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

abnormal collapse: much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition"; not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"; departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development; "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality"

incongruous collapse: lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"

incoherent collapse: unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief"; without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"

contradictory collapse: two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time; unable to be both true at the same time; of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"

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