incompact

[ in-kuhm-pakt ]

adjective

1. not compact; loose.

Other Words From

• incom·pactly adverb
• incom·pactness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of incompact¹

First recorded in 1610–20; in- ³ + compact ¹

Example Sentences

By the by, what a miserable language is our English in some respects; so awkward, so incompact!

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Associated words: photology, photologist, photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary. light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous. light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate. light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle. lighten, v. light, illuminate, illume; ease, relieve, alleviate. light-fingered, a. thievish, pilfering. light-footed, a. nimble, agile. lighthouse, n. beacon, fanal, pharos.

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Antonyms: incompact, loose. crowding, n. congestion, compression. crown, n. diadem, coronet, corona; tiara; wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays; royalty, sovereignty; consummation, capsheaf, summit, top, crest, vertex, vortex; krone.

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Antonyms: porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious. solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity. soliloquy, n. monologue. solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical. solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite. solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness.

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