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incongruous
/ˌɪŋˈkɔŋɹuəs/
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Stress the second syllable.
Keep ng, hard g, and r connected. The following oo and uh make two lighter syllables.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The modern chair looked incongruous in the old room.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does incongruous mean?
adjective
- Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
- Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪŋˈkɔŋɹuəs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ɪnˈkɑn.ɡɹu.əs//ɪŋˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əs/
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Not that he wished to be less well-appearing, but that he was ashamed to belie his appearance by incongruous appeals.
“You never laugh laughter. You only laugh when something is odd or incongruous, and then it almost seems to hurt you.”
More book examples (3)
Later in the day he said to himself half a dozen times that he had simply warned Gordon against an incongruous union.
Here, at Lovelocks, I fall in with one of those strange and seemingly incongruous characters that are occasionally met with in the West.
And as there is nothing else astir, these incongruous sights and noises take hold on the attention and exaggerate the sadness of the place.