'Dissonant' definitions:

Definition of 'dissonant'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved [syn: unresolved, dissonant]
adjective
Lacking in harmony [syn: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic]
adjective
Not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements" [syn: at variance(p), discrepant, dissonant]

Definition of 'Dissonant'

From: GCIDE
  • Dissonant \Dis"so*nant\, a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant.]
  • 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. [1913 Webster]
  • With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." --South. [1913 Webster]
  • What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? --Hakewill. [1913 Webster]

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