dissonant
disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
out of harmony; incongruous; at variance.
Music. characterized by dissonance.
Origin of dissonant
1Other words for dissonant
Other words from dissonant
- dis·so·nant·ly, adverb
- un·dis·so·nant, adjective
- un·dis·so·nant·ly, adverb
Words Nearby dissonant
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How to use dissonant in a sentence
In fact, no category is stranger or more dissonant with how America consumed entertainment during our pandemic year than Television Movie.
Forget the Individual Snubs. The 2021 Emmy Nominations Reveal a Fundamentally Broken Institution | Judy Berman | July 13, 2021 | TimeThis is yet another season that brings a dissonant clash of hope and fear, chaos and progress.
Be Bold, Be Proud, Speak Up: Raising Asian American Daughters Now | Susanna Schrobsdorff | March 21, 2021 | TimeNeuroscientists still don’t completely understand how this system works, but they think it connects dissonant parts of our brains, which can help us find meaning in our chaotic lives.
An axe shows up in the third act, but The Shining is referenced throughout, especially through Kris Bowers’ shrieking, dissonant score.
Justin Simien talks ‘Bad Hair,’ following his genre obsessions, and getting ‘free as hell’ in ’80s horror satire | Isaac Feldberg | October 22, 2020 | FortuneSuch was the case for 2011’s Crack Up, the band’s first album in six years, in which band leader Robin Pecknold introduced dark, dissonant elements to the bands’ previously pleasant, uplifting sound.
Who became an accomplished concert pianist before she tuned her ear to the more dissonant chords of international relations.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTdissonant music that might otherwise be found in a Kubrick film portend to the worst.
The ‘12 Years a Slave’ Book Shows Slavery As Even More Appalling Than In the Film | Jimmy So | October 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBenedict has made nice to Muslims since that dissonant Islam speech, praying at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul in 2006.
It produced comparatively little foundation tone and a powerful chord of harmonics, many of them dissonant.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerNo Russian, whose dissonant, consonant name Almost rattles to fragments the trumpet of fame?Postscript.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick MarryatChristmas, too, closed, and the steeples no longer jangled forth a dissonant peal.
Peveril of the Peak | Sir Walter ScottPractise dissonant chords until they please the ear in spite of their sharpness.
Piano Mastery | Harriette BrowerIt was followed by shouts of dissonant laughter, unlike the cheering sounds of human mirth.
Discipline | Mary Brunton
British Dictionary definitions for dissonant
/ (ˈdɪsənənt) /
discordant; cacophonous
incongruous or discrepant
music characterized by dissonance
Origin of dissonant
1Derived forms of dissonant
- dissonantly, adverb
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