Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unmusical.
  • Figuratively, discordant; opposed; contrary: as, “absonous to our reason,” Glanville, Scep. Sci., iv.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

Etymologies

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From Latin absonus, from ab- ("away") + sonus ("sound").

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