All 3 Uses of
coherent
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.†
- incoherent in its words
*incoherent = not logically consistentstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherent means not and reverses the meaning of coherent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.†
Definition:
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(coherent) sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner