Thesaurus: dissonant

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1. a. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
2. a. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
3. adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
4. adj. lacking in harmony
5. adj. not in accord
6. 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." South. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.
7. j:100 s characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved s lacking in harmony s not in accord