Dissonant

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  • adjective. Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
  • adjective. Being at variance; disagreeing.
  • adjective. Constituting or producing a dissonance.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Discordant in sound; harsh; jarring; inharmonious; unpleasant to the ear: as, dissonant tones or intervals.
  • Discordant in general; disagreeing; incongruous.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
  • adjective. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
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  • adjective. Of or pertaining to dissonance.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not in accord
  • adjective. lacking in harmony
  • adjective. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
    • Word Usage
    "Not doing well results in dissonant silence or an intentionally dissonant interruption."
    cross-reference
    dissonant chord  dissonant interval  
    Equivalent
    discordant  inharmonious  unharmonious  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Third Order  atonal  blood-chilling  cacophonous  discordant  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absonant  antagonistic  antipathetic  assorted  at cross-purposes  
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