Dissonant Definition

dĭsə-nənt
adjective
Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
American Heritage
Opposing in opinion, temperament, etc.; incompatible; incongruous.
Webster's New World
Being at variance; disagreeing.
American Heritage
Characterized by or constituting a dissonance; discordant.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Dissonant

  • Middle English dissonaunt from Old French dissonant from Latin dissonāns dissonant- present participle of dissonāre to be dissonant dis- apart dis– sonāre to sound swen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French dissonant

    From Wiktionary

Dissonant Sentence Examples

  • Is this a dissonant chord, or just wrong?

  • It sounds as tho Plaid have decided that they need their music to sound dissonant for some reason.

  • But the interval b bc" gives nearly twice as many beats and is not nearly so dissonant.

  • Thus b"c"' and b'bc" have each 66 beats per second, yet the former is more dissonant than the latter.

  • Smallville's Lex Luthor was not introduced as a villain, but more as dissonant friend for Clark in the series pilot.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

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TNTANT

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