Meaning of DISSONANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'disununt
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- [adj] lacking in harmony
- [adj] (music) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
- [adj] not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay"
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| | Synonyms: | | discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic, inharmonious, nonmusical, unharmonious, unmusical, unresolved |
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| | Antonyms: | | musical | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.
--Longfellow.
2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from 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.
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