disharmoniousadj.
/dɪshɑːˈməʊnɪəs/ 1. Not in harmony or agreement; marked by want of harmony.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective]
discordablea1393
discordanta1393
discordinga1398
incongruea1398
inconvenient1398
unaccording1398
discordc1415
disagreeablea1425
inconsutilec1450
unaccordanta1470
dissonant1490
disaccordanta1513
disagreeing?1526
incongruent1531
wide1531
unconsonant1535
dissonate1548
dissenting1550
dissident?c1550
unagreeable?1550
disconformc1554
discrepant1556
absonant1564
dissentany1586
disconsorted1589
disagreed1596
discordous1597
discordious1598
incorrespondent1599
dissentious1605
untunable1605
incongruous1611
unagreeing1611
unanswerable1611
eccentric1612
unconcurrent1613
disconsonant1614
dissentaneous1623
dissorting1631
uncorrespondent1631
discorrespondent1635
incoincident1636
unconcurring1639
eccentrical1640
unatonable1645
incompliant1647
pluranimous1650
disconformeda1658
inagreeable1657
inconsonant1658
disharmonious1659
inconcinn1660
discongruous1663
unharmonious1667
discoherent1675
uncongruous1709
inharmonious1749
immutual1768
unharmonized1803
unconsentaneous1818
inaccordant1822
uncorresponding1826
unharmonizing1851
non-concurring1866
discordful1867
disharmonic1887
non-concurrent1907
1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. i. 335 [It] may..prove painful to the Soul, and dis-harmonious to her touch.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 39 The musician's soul would be the most disharmonious.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health Thus there is caused an unequal disharmonious Life.
1754 J. Hildrop Misc. Wks. I. 38 Disharmonious, disorderly Motions of the Fluids and Animal Spirits.
1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxv. 355 Let me warn you against the fatal delusion that such a dual, such a divided, such a disharmonious life as this, is enough for God.
2. Of sounds: Unharmonious, discordant.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious
discordanta1425
jarring1552
dissonant1573
tuneless1595
discordous1597
immelodious1601
discord1606
absurd1617
unharmoniousa1634
scrannel1638
unmelodious1665
disharmonious1683
disharmonical1688
unharmonic1694
dissonous1715
inharmonious1715
disconsonant1731
anti-musical1824
ear-sore1859
tin-kettley1862
cacophonous1867
unnoted1867
callithumpian1886
tinny1904
crunchy1959
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 461 The dis-harmonious noise of Drunken Healths and Roaring Huzza's.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. iii. 77 Dispute which rose crescendo in disharmonious duet.
Derivatives
disharˈmoniously adv. in a disharmonious manner, discordantly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adverb]
unsamena1400
unaccordinglyc1449
discordantlyc1454
incongruly1483
incongruently1568
disagreeingly1591
unanswerable1614
ajar1622
incongruously1641
unanswerably1656
disharmoniously1664
dissonantly1799
inaccordantly1822
inharmoniously1828
unharmoniously1856
unconsonantly1863
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb]
rudelya1375
untunably1504
hoarselya1529
jarringly1583
harshly1599
unmusically1609
disharmoniously1664
hoarse1709
unmelodiously1739
unharmoniously1783
raucously1852
raggedly1854
dissonously1866
uneuphoniously1882
untunefully1884
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity To Rdr. Whose very title sounds so harshly and disharmoniously.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xiii. 192 This..victorious Campaign..with which all Europe is disharmoniously ringing.
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