Word Meanings - DISSONANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth."

Additional info about word: DISSONANT

disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSONANT)

• Absonant
• Dissonant
• discordant
• contrariant
• repugnant
• inconsonant
• inharmonious
• incompatible
• inappropriate
• impertinent

Related words: (words related to DISSONANT)

• CONTRARIANT
  Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge. (more info) oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p.pr. of contrarier to
• ABSONANT
  Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.
• INHARMONIOUSLY
  Without harmony.
• INHARMONIOUS
  1. Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Cowper. 2. Conflicting; jarring; not in harmony.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• INHARMONIOUSNESS
  The quality of being inharmonious; want of harmony; discord. The inharmoniousness of a verse. A. Tucker.
• REPUGNANT
  Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was
• CONTRARIANTLY
  Contrarily.
• INCONSONANT
  Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv.
• INCOMPATIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility.
• DISSONANT
  disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth."
• IMPERTINENT
  1. Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.
• REPUGNANTLY
  In a repugnant manner.
• INCOMPATIBLE
  Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. Incompatible terms , terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn. -- Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing;
• INAPPROPRIATE
  Not instrument ; not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.
• IMPERTINENTLY
  In an impertinent manner. "Not to betray myself impertinently." B. Jonson.
• SELF-REPUGNANT
  Self-contradictory; inconsistent. Brougham.