dissonant

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  1. adjective Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
  2. adjective Being at variance; disagreeing.
  3. adjective Music Constituting or producing a dissonance.

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  • A dissonant, inhuman howling marked the descent of the Dark Lord down the black circle to Luke's right. —  Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
  • Jenny listened for the dissonant tones of bewit bells but-heard none. —  From This Beloved Hour
  • Both times, the volumes had arrived as flaming masses, accompanied with ugly dissonant-chords, and both times, Anna and Secca had been prostrated. —  The Shadow Sorceress
  • The sound of those dissonant, gabbling voices was beginning to merge into one sound-a low, grating whisper. —  The Waste Lands
  • A dissonant, disembodied voice echoed from above. —  The Distant Echo
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English dissonaunt, from Old French dissonant, from Latin dissonāns, dissonant-, present participle of dissonāre, to be dissonant : dis-, apart; see dis- + sonāre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from P. dissonant = Spanish disonante = Portuguese Italian dissonante, from Latin dissonants(t-)s, present participle of dissonare, disagree in sound (cf. dissonus, disagreeing in sound), from dis-, apart, + sonus, a sound, sonare, sound: see sonant. Cf. assonant, consonant, resonant.
 

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