disharmonic
Americanadjective
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lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
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without symmetry in physical form.
Etymology
Origin of disharmonic
First recorded in 1885–90; disharmon(y) + -ic
Example Sentences
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Yet it’s also appropriate, a kind of disharmonic convergence.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2014
In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
In a very few minutes, in the case of disharmonic kinds of blood, the red corpuscles degenerate, and the hæmoglobin, becoming dissolved in the blood-plasma, soon appears in the urine.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
Vöchting distinguishes as harmonic or disharmonic the modes of union between twig and stem, according to whether or no they reach the formation of functional unity.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
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