INCOHERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incoherently mean? 

• INCOHERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCOHERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an incoherent manner

  Familiarity information: INCOHERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOHERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an incoherent manner

Context example:

he talked incoherently when he drank too much

Antonym:

coherently (in a coherent manner)

Pertainym:

incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)

 Context examples 

She thanked him incoherently, as if for a favor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Brooke kissed Meg entirely by mistake, as he somewhat incoherently explained.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Marianne's ideas were still, at intervals, fixed incoherently on her mother, and whenever she mentioned her name, it gave a pang to the heart of poor Elinor, who, reproaching herself for having trifled with so many days of illness, and wretched for some immediate relief, fancied that all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long, and pictured to herself her suffering mother arriving too late to see this darling child, or to see her rational.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I know I express myself incoherently, but I've tried to hammer out the idea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)