mutually exclusive

1. 1.

   unable for both to exist or be true at the same time

   Synonymscontradictory

   Similarincompatible

Questions about mutually exclusive

What does mutually exclusive mean?

mutually exclusive means "unable for both to exist or be true at the same time".

What is another word for mutually exclusive?

Close synonyms include contradictory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutually exclusive a common word?

mutually exclusive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.