incoherent

adj

1. Not coherent.

   “When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.”

   “After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.”

   “By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.”

   “1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z, […] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]”

   “[…] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.”

2. (obsolete)Not coherent.

   “[…] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.”

   “That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.”

   “[…] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]”

3. Not coherent.

   “At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.”

   “[…] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.”

   “I was glad, now, to be out of Karhide, an incoherent land driven towards violence by a paranoid, pregnant king and an egomaniac Regent.”

noun

1. (historical)A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.