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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence;

2. not having a common factor;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.] Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. [1913 Webster] They are quantities incommensurable. --Burke. -- In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*men"su*ra*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

incommensurable adj 1: impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence 2: not having a common factor
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "incommensurable": abnormal, absurd, alien, anomalous, apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disproportionate, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, exotic, extraneous, foreign, incoherent, incommensurate, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular, irreconcilable, irrelative, isolated, not comparable to, of different orders, other, out of proportion, outlandish, oxymoronic, paradoxical, removed, segregate, self-contradictory, separate, separated, strange, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated