inconsistent

From in- + consistent.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/

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inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)

1. Not consistent:

   Antonym: consistent

   2. Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.

      His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.

   3. Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.

      Synonym: spotty

      He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.

      • 1862, Robert Aspland, editor, The Christian Reformer:

        He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.

   4. Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
      • 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:

        “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
        “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”

   5. (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.

• inconsistency

• nonscientist

From in- +‎ consistent.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [iŋ.kun.sisˈten]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [iŋ.kon.sisˈtent]

inconsistent m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)

1. inconsistent

   Antonym: consistent

• inconsistència

• “inconsistent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inconsistent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “inconsistent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From in- +‎ consistent.

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inconsistent (comparative inconsistenter, superlative inconsistentst)

1. inconsistent

   Antonym: consistent

Borrowed from French inconsistant. Equivalent to in- +‎ consistent.

inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistentă, masculine plural inconsistenți, feminine/neuter plural inconsistente)

1. inconsistent