Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unmusical.
- Figuratively, discordant; opposed; contrary: as, “absonous to our reason,” Glanville, Scep. Sci., iv.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
Etymologies
- From Latin absonus, from ab- ("away") + sonus ("sound"). (Wiktionary)
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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