Dissonant
['dɪs(ə)nənt] or ['dɪsənənt]
Definition
(a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
(a.) Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Discordant, unharmonious, harsh, grating, jarring, out of tune.[2]. Disagreeing, incongruous, inconsistent, discrepant.
Checker: Yale
Definition
adj. not agreeing or harmonising in sound: without concord or harmony: disagreeing.—n. Diss′onance disagreement of sound: want of harmony: discord: disagreement: (spec.) a combination of musical sounds which produces beats—also Diss′onancy.
Edited by Griffith
Examples
- He was startled by the loud and dissonant voice of a man who was apparently dismounting at the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The ringers cracked a bell in Briarfield belfry; it is dissonant to this day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He explained how these fundamental and compound tones might be fully developed to produce either harmonious or dissonant sensations. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Griffith