nonmatching

[ non-mach-ing ]

adjective

1. not matching:

   a nonmatching set of furniture.

2. (of a financial grant, donation, or the like) available or given without requiring the recipient to obtain a complementary amount from another source.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonmatching¹

1960–65; non- + match ²( def ) + -ing ²( def )

Example Sentences

“If a trans person of color has a nonmatching ID card and wants to cross a border, that is a catastrophe.”

From Seattle Times

In another group, they didn’t like that one boy wore an earring, another had long hair and a third had a nonmatching belt buckle.

From New York Times

But here’s how they got to that: of the 2,178 comparisons they made between nonmatching cartridge cases, 65 percent of the comparisons were correctly called “eliminations.”

From Scientific American

Graham had already proved himself willing to act on assertions of election irregularities, calling Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in November to see if he could toss mail ballots in counties found to have high rates of nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger later said.

From Seattle Times

On the call with Watson, Trump urged her to check the envelope signatures against older signatures on file rather than a current file — an apparent attempt to inflate the numbers of nonmatching signatures.

From Washington Post