incompact
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]incompact (comparative more incompact, superlative most incompact)
- Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; incoherent or loose.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
- four elements might, indeed, be variously and loosely blended together, but would remain incompact
Synonyms
[edit]- spread out, thin; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incompact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)