English Dictionary
◊ INCOMPATIBLE
incompatible
adj 1: not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible
colors" [ant: {compatible}]
2: used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or
neutralize each other's effect [syn: {antagonistic}] [ant:
{synergistic}]
3: not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial
roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial
to one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn: {uncongenial}] [ant: {congenial}]
4: (computers) incapable of being used with or connected to
other devices or components without modification [ant: {compatible}]
5: of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: {contrastive}]
6: not easy to combine harmoniously [syn: {ill-sorted}, {mismated},
{unsuited}]
7: not compatible with other facts [syn: {discrepant}]
8: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely
inappropriate behavior" [syn: {inappropriate}, {out or
keeping(p)}, {unfitting}]
9: used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of
blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN BUG-COMPATIBLE?
bug-compatible
Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised
by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or
{misfeature}s in other programs or (especially) previous
releases of itself. "{MS-DOS} 2.0 used \ as a path separator
to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an
option character in 1.0."
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