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
Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop
Hundreds of times he had been baffled by the hedge round that disharmonic nature.
From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John
Voechting, experiments on grafting, 70; harmonic and disharmonic union, 70; on cells, 114, 116; on plasticity of plants, 117, 119; on grafting, 120.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.
From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John
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