disharmonic

[ dis-hahr-mon-ik ]
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adjective
  1. lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.

  2. without symmetry in physical form.

Origin of disharmonic

1
First recorded in 1885–90; disharmon(y) + -ic

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How to use disharmonic in a sentence

  • In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.

    Fraternity | 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.

    Fraternity | John Galsworthy
  • Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish.

  • Hundreds of times he had been baffled by the hedge round that disharmonic nature.

    Fraternity | John Galsworthy