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disharmonic

[ dis-hahr-mon-ik ]
/ ˌdɪs hɑrˈmɒn ɪk /
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adjective

lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
without symmetry in physical form.

RELATED WORDS

discordant, raucous, noisy, jarring, dissonant, grating, inharmonious, sour, strident, unmusical, clinking, jangly, cacophonous, harsh, disharmonious, inharmonic, tuneless

Nearby words

dish top, dish up, dishabille, dishabituate, dishallow, disharmonic, disharmonious, disharmonize, disharmony, dishcloth, dishcloth gourd

Origin of disharmonic

First recorded in 1885–90; disharmon(y) + -ic
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for disharmonic

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

    The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy|Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

  • 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

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

    Fraternity|John Galsworthy