inconsistent
adj/ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
Etymology From in- + consistent.
› Not consistent:
1
Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
2
Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
- 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.
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.1862, Robert Aspland, editor, The Christian Reformer:
3
Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- “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 [...]”1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
4
Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
- Derived terms
- inconsistently, inconsistentness
- Related terms
- inconsistency