OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 27439

incongruous

/ɪnˈkɒn.ɡɹʊu.ʌs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
incongruente
Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongr…
[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.