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adjective

Dissonant adj.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. "With clamor of voices dissonant and loud."

Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, with from or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." "What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman?"

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Etymology of 'Dissonant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissonant" Quotes from Famous Books

... to chase away the thought, To lull the sound of dissonant despair, Appears to me with added terrors fraught, And my torn heart can ...

— Elegies and Other Small Poems • Matilda Betham

... tones giving rise to the feeling of incompleteness or unrest, and therefore requiring resolution to some other combination which has an agreeable or final feeling. (cf. consonance.) The diminished triad C—E[flat]—G[flat] is an example of a dissonant chord. ...

— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens

... rattled her chains fiercely, scolding with a vigour which rather alarmed us, but which Tina minded not a whit. Confident of her own powers, she would, in the very midst of her wrath, mimic her to her face with such irresistible drollery as to cause the torrent of reproof to end in a dissonant laugh, accompanied by a submissive ...

— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... longer sympathised with the lively music of the followers of the one, or the discordant sounds with which the other asserted a more noisy claim to attention. Christmas, too, closed, and the steeples no longer jangled forth a dissonant peal. The wren, to seek for which used to be the sport dedicated to the holytide, was left unpursued and unslain. Party spirit had come among these simple people, and destroyed their good humour, while it left them their ignorance. Even the races, a sport generally interesting ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... may strike the reader as strange and even dissonant. What have art and ritual to do together? The ritualist is, to the modern mind, a man concerned perhaps unduly with fixed forms and ceremonies, with carrying out the rigidly prescribed ordinances of a church or ...

— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison

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