dissonant

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It was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill.

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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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  • The music in his mind turned ever more dissonant, swelling ever louder in a glacially slow crescendo like a distorted symphony by Charles Ives. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • A vibration pure as a flute but buzzed with unexpected harmonics -- near, like it was inside my body, and yet alien -- wet, dissonant, warning, welcoming: it was the roundest, interestingest sound ever. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • Like the film, the blog would grow beyond its initially stated purpose, becoming a widespread collaborative effort, a home for many voices (harmonized, dissonant, solo) to speak their varied truths. —  The House Next Door
  • But, the piece altogether skirts the seemingly dissonant issue of Mr. Bogusky penning a diet book. —  Advertising Age - Homepage
  • Madrid is more akin to something from Francis Bacon's brush, equal parts beautiful (not tuesday), dissonant, and chaotic. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
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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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