不相容

bùxiāngróng

adjective

Meanings

1 incompatible
2 mutually exclusive
3 irreconcilable

Characters

mutually, each other

contain, tolerate

Examples

这两种观点完全不相容。

Zhè liǎng zhǒng guāndiǎn wánquán bùxiāngróng.

These two views are completely incompatible.

理论上水和油是不相容的。

Lǐlùn shàng shuǐ hé yóu shì bùxiāngróng de.

In principle water and oil are immiscible.

Tips

usage

Used for ideas, theories, materials, even people that simply can't coexist. In physics 'Pauli's exclusion principle' is 泡利不相容原理. The plain antonym is 相容 (xiāngróng, compatible).

Stroke Order

不 bù

相 xiāng

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