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  1. 1. a. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved Source: wordnet
  4. 4. adj. lacking in harmony Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. not in accord Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 7. j:100 s characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved s lacking in harmony s not in accord Source: ecdict

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