incoherent; chaotic; disjointed
Almost exclusively used in the compound 支離滅裂 (しりめつれつ), meaning completely incoherent or utterly disjointed. Rarely appears alone.
His explanation was completely incoherent; I couldn't understand what he was saying.
The word 滅裂 is almost never used alone; it appears as part of 支離滅裂.
incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical
Standard kanji spelling; the word is almost always used in the compound 支離滅裂.
Kana spelling is rarely used independently; included as a search aid.
A literary Sino-Japanese word meaning “broken apart” or “disordered,” now most familiar as the second half of 支離滅裂, “incoherent; disjointed.”