Incongruous means strangely out of place among the rest. An incongruous sight, incongruous with the setting, oddly incongruous.
It is about the mismatch rather than the thing itself, so nothing is incongruous on its own. Comedy runs on it, since a joke is usually something incongruous turning up where it was not expected.
1adjectiveincongruousStrangely out of place among the rest.
“In his dinner jacket, he looked incongruous among the hikers at the mountain hut.”
incongruous is a quality.
Latin incongruus is in-, not, plus congruus, agreeing, from congruere, to come together.
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From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in + congruous.
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