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ˈdɪs ə nəntdis·so·nant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unresolved, dissonantadjective

    characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved

  2. discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonicadjective

    lacking in harmony

  3. at variance(p), discrepant, dissonantadjective

    not in accord

    "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements"

Wiktionary

  1. dissonantadjective

    Of or pertaining to dissonance.

    The music was filled with dissonant chords.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dissonantadjective

    Etymology: dissonans, Latin.

    Dire were the strain and dissonant, to sing
    The cruel raptures of the savage kind. James Thomson, Spring.

    What can be more dissonant from reason and nature, than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should shew himself unkind and inhuman. George Hakewill, on Providence.

    When conscience reports any thing dissonant to truth, it obliges no more than the falshood reported by it. South.

Wikipedia

  1. dissonant

    In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. The terms form a structural dichotomy in which they define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and a dissonance is what is not consonant. However, a finer consideration shows that the distinction forms a gradation, from the most consonant to the most dissonant. In casual discourse, as German composer and music theorist Paul Hindemith stressed, "The two concepts have never been completely explained, and for a thousand years the definitions have varied". The term sonance has been proposed to encompass or refer indistinctly to the terms consonance and dissonance.

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  1. dissonant

    Dissonant typically refers to a lack of harmony or agreement among elements. In music, it describes a combination of notes with a harsh or unpleasant sound. In general context, it can refer to anything that is incompatible, incongruous or clashing with something else.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dissonantadjective

    sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious

  2. Dissonantadjective

    disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to

  3. Etymology: [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dissonant

    dis′o-nant, 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. [Fr.,—L. dissonans, -antisdis, apart, sonāre, to sound.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dissonant in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dissonant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of dissonant in a Sentence

  1. Alfred Jarry:

    It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.

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