incompact
English
Alternative forms
- incompacted
Etymology
Adjective
incompact (comparative more incompact, superlative most incompact)
- Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; incoherent or loose.
- incompact mass/group/cooperation/soil
- 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
- spread out, thin, uncompact; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
Derived terms
References
- “incompact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.