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coherent
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The Infinite Sea
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- I couldn't grab hold of a single coherent thought.†
p. 161.4coherent = sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner
- Perfectly perfect, I thought, a little incoherently.†
p. 163.2 *incoherently = not in a sensible and clear manner; or not in a manner where parts fit together consistently or pleasinglystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherently means not and reverses the meaning of coherently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- And Ben Parish slammed his open hand onto the frozen ground, arching his back and yelling incoherently, and I'm thinking, Oh God, oh God, not the time for an existential crisis.†
p. 173.9
- Then the door behind us flies open and Jumbo Recruit lumbers in, gun drawn, shouting incoherently.†
p. 247.6
Definitions:
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(coherent) sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of coherent such as one used in physics.