Meaning & use

Incoherently

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In a way that is unclear, disorganized, or difficult to understand.

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He mumbled incoherently after being woken from a deep sleep.

The witness spoke incoherently, jumping between unrelated details.

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Built from 'coherent' (logically connected) plus the negating prefix 'in-.'

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unintelligiblyconfusedly

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