Dissonant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
  • adj. Being at variance; disagreeing.
  • adj. Music Constituting or producing a dissonance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to dissonance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
  • adj. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not in accord
  • adj. lacking in harmony
  • adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
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    discordant    unmusical    atonal    raucous    unmelodious