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Dissonant adj.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. "With clamor of voices dissonant and loud."

Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, with from or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." "What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman?"

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Etymology of 'Dissonant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissonant" Quotes from Famous Books

... disjointed time. All thought of his errand, all thought of place and person, faded as he realized this presence. How long he would have remained in this mute adoration there is no telling. The restless, keen eyes looked up sharply and a dissonant, imperious, ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... more than do "futuristic" pictures and other modern monstrosities of a like nature. The only exact means whereby a poet may transmit his ideas to others is language, a thing both definite and intellectual. Granting that vague, chaotic, dissonant lines are the best form in which the tender suitor of the Muses may record his spiritual impressions for his own benefit and comprehension, it by no means follows that such lines are at all fitted to convey those impressions to minds other than his ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... weird world, dream-haunted. She used to study the grand effects of shifting light, that made the hill bold and strong, or fused it into dreamy harmonies that seemed to have the subtile essence of music; then contrasts that were abrupt and apparently dissonant, quite against well-known edicts of human taste. Who was right,—the great Author of all? She smiled to herself when she heard people talk so glibly of nature, as if the one little rose-leaf were ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

Words linked to "Dissonant" : inharmonic, inharmonious, disharmonious, at variance, dissonate, discrepant, unharmonious, unresolved, music