inharmoniousadj.
/ɪnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs/ Not harmonious.
1. Of sound: Not in harmony; sounding disagreeably; discordant, untuneful.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective]
hardOE
rudea1375
stern1390
rougha1400
discordanta1425
stoutc1440
hoarse1513
harsh1530
raughtish1567
rugged1567
dissonant1573
harshy1582
jarry1582
immelodious1601
cragged1605
raggeda1616
unmusicala1616
absonousa1620
unharmoniousa1634
inharmonical1683
unharmonic1694
inharmonious1715
craggy1774
pebbly1793
reedy1795
iron1807
dry1819
inharmonic1828
asperated1835
sawing1851
shrewd1876
coarse1879
callithumpian1886
dissonantal1946
ear-bending1946
sandpaper1953
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
1715 H. Felton Diss. reading Classics (ed. 2) 30 Catullus, whom, tho' his Lines be Rough, and his Numbers Inharmonious, I could recommend for the Softness and Delicacy..of his Thoughts.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 207 Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 154 No inharmonious prelude to the last quietude and desertion of the grave.
2. Not harmonious in relation, action, or sentiment; disagreeing; conflicting; not in accordance.
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
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 247 The Contractions of the Ventricles become asynchronous and inharmonious to those of the Auricles.
1846 J. Miller Pract. Surg. v. 154 Squinting..The immediate cause obviously depends on an inharmonious action of the recti muscles.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator iv. 230/2 Although they [Chinese works] do not present such a perfect colour-bloom as do the works of India, yet they are never inharmonious.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 2/3 Last Saturday's meeting of the Sliding Scale Committee was singularly inharmonious.
Derivatives
inharˈmoniously adv.
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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
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adverb] > inharmoniously or unmelodiously
jarringly1583
discordantly1616
unmelodiously1739
unharmoniously1783
inharmoniously1828
cacophonously1864
tunelessly1905
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Inharmoniously.
1864 Daily Tel. 30 Sept. 5/4 Some prodigious caricature, in which the heroic and the absurd, the sublime and the vulgar, are inharmoniously but audaciously blended.
inharˈmoniousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun]
harshnessc1480
dissonance1598
raucedity1599
raucity1607
untunableness1611
disharmony1656
asperity1664
raucidity1669
inharmoniousness1768
tunelessness1881
untunefulness1881
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 366 They adjudge them one short and the other long, and would be horribly shocked at the inharmoniousness of a verse wherein they should be introduced in each others places.
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