This printer is incompatible with some PCs. the committee's incompatible goals—develop new projects and cut costs—meant that they got very little accomplished
Recent Examples on the WebBut the focus of the individual and that of the collective are sometimes incompatible. Arvid Buit, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022 Despite the stereotype, poetry and poverty are often incompatible. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Conservatives should know the reality of Russia’s social situation, how many of our national interests are incompatible, and how Putin’s governance is not a fit for America. Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022 Antibodies in her blood had been attacking the baby because their blood types were incompatible. Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021 Still, rising interest-rate expectations and inflation forecasts aren’t incompatible, Barclays’ Mr. Pond said. Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021 The European Commission on Thursday unveiled legislation to require smartphones and other electronic devices use a common charging port, USB-C, so that consumers don't need to have various different cables that are incompatible, The Verge reports. Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Sep. 2021 Seymour Martin Lipset pointed out that two sacred American political values--freedom and equality--were incompatible.Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2021 The question of whether Athens is incompatible with Jerusalem—the relationship between these two cities, which symbolize two different ways of approaching reality—is a question that humanity has wrestled with for millennia.WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Medieval Latin incompatibilis, from Latin in- + Medieval Latin compatibilis compatible