harmonious
marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
forming a pleasingly consistent whole; congruous: harmonious colors.
pleasant to the ear; tuneful; melodious.
Origin of harmonious
1Other words for harmonious
Opposites for harmonious
Other words from harmonious
- har·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
- har·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
- non·har·mo·ni·ous, adjective
- non·har·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
- non·har·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
- pre·har·mo·ni·ous, adjective
- pre·har·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
- pre·har·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
- un·har·mo·ni·ous, adjective
- un·har·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
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How to use harmonious in a sentence
We’ve always tried to apply our technologies to get a more harmonious relationship with the environment.
What Corning CEO Wendell P. Weeks Learned From Steve Jobs About Risk | Joann S. Lublin | June 12, 2022 | TimeIf you spend enough time on Kibbe forums, certain phrases like “dressing for your lines,” “creating a harmonious look,” and “yin and yang balance” start to become familiar.
The early study of ecosystems often treated them axiomatically as harmonious.
E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way - Issue 112: Inspiration | David Sloan Wilson | January 5, 2022 | NautilusThere is no reason to expect the whole ecosystem to be functionally organized and harmonious, any more than a chimpanzee community or a human society in the grip of civil war.
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Eight years prior, Jane Hawking had released a decidedly less harmonious memoir, Music to Move the Stars.
The Other Side of Stephen Hawking: Strippers, Aliens, and Disturbing Abuse Claims | Marlow Stern | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere has been a sudden discovery that these harmonious, peaceful societies had enormous human creativity, emotions, and drama.
It quickly became clear that plenty of wine and good food would keep us in harmonious alignment.
The Upside of a Destination Wedding: Tales of a Serial Wedding Guest | Jen Doll | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNaw Kham understood the importance of maintaining harmonious relations with the locals.
How China Used Drones to Capture a Notorious Burmese Drug Lord | Brendon Hong | April 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor many years, nearly all of the marriages I observed around me struck me as more harmonious than my own, more solid than my own.
Six Fictional Marriages that Have Gone Very, Very Wrong | Jean Hanff Korelitz | March 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd what is wanting in such is principally the rectification of their views: their endeavours are harmonious and consistent.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamBuilt of red sandstone, rich with sculptures and of graceful and harmonious architecture, there are few cathedrals more pleasing.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThere were at least a dozen churches, and their far-away bells sounded sweetly harmonious in so many different keys.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerIts discordant clashes sweep upward in one harmonious tone that blends with the music of other worlds—to complete God's orchestra.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinHe had never imagined wild flowers by the billion, nor such a harmonious variety of color.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for harmonious
/ (hɑːˈməʊnɪəs) /
(esp of colours or sounds) fitting together well
having agreement or consensus
tuneful, consonant, or melodious
Derived forms of harmonious
- harmoniously, adverb
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