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dissonant /ˈdɪs(ə)nənt /adjective Music1Lacking harmony: irregular, dissonant chords...- The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings.
- It may be to this very fact that a certain unwritten ‘law’ is owed: this law prefers that melodic notes dissonant to the prevailing harmony should be resolved by step.
- The dissonant chords melt into nothingness giving the impression of not wanting to fight anymore, a cruel world left to savage itself away.
Synonyms inharmonious, disharmonious, discordant, unmelodious, atonal, tuneless, off-key, cacophonous; harsh, strident, grating, jarring 1.1Unsuitable or unusual in combination; clashing: Jackson employs both harmonious and dissonant colour choices...- The lack of volume can be particularly dissonant when bus conversations clash with your music during the daily commute.
- Whatever the origins of the malaise, this dissonant combination of urban potential, challenges and inadequate responses can only lead to more frustration and cynicism among citizens.
- If her slightly warped geometry and dissonant, high-keyed colors sometimes suggest the cartoon world of Elizabeth Murray, Cecily Kahn is more deeply rooted in the tradition of abstraction.
Synonyms incongruous, anomalous, irreconcilable, discrepant, disagreeing, clashing; disparate, different, dissimilar, inconsistent, incompatible, contradictory Derivativesdissonantly adverb ...- Yet the music was darkly, dissonantly underground.
- The melodic line begins dissonantly, but softly.
- The faint light of a full moon lit my way dissonantly.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'clashing'): from Old French, or from Latin dissonant- 'being discordant', from the verb dissonare, from dis- 'apart' + sonare 'to sound'. |