Dissonant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissonant \Dis"so*nant\, a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of
     dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare
     to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See {Sonant}.]
     1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
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              With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
        "Anything dissonant to truth." --South.
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              What can be dissonant from reason and nature than
              that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should
              show himself unkind and inhuman?      --Hakewill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissonant
       adj 1: not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay"
              [syn: {unmusical}, {nonmusical}] [ant: {musical}]
       2: characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
          [syn: {unresolved}]
       3: lacking in harmony [syn: {discordant}, {disharmonious}, {inharmonic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissonant":
     absonant, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes,
     at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, cacophonic,
     cacophonous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary,
     contrasted, contrasting, cracked, cranky, cross, departing,
     deviating, deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated,
     differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant,
     discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonic,
     disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident,
     dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers,
     diverse, diversified, flat, grating, harsh, heterogeneous, hoarse,
     hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant,
     incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
     inharmonic, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many,
     motley, multifarious, musicless, negative, nonmelodious, off,
     off-key, off-tone, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone,
     out of tune, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, raucous,
     repugnant, rude, rugged, separate, separated, several, sharp,
     shrill, sour, strident, tuneless, unconformable, uncongenial,
     unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable,
     untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying,
     widely apart, worlds apart