inharmonious
/ɪnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs
/adjective
Not forming or contributing to a pleasing whole; discordant: an inharmonious, negative state of mind...
- One of the major factors is the issue of inharmonious industrial relations at work places which quite often has led to work stoppages.
- Having removed every inconsistency from the sacred constitutions, hitherto inharmonious and confused, we extended our care to the immense volumes of the older jurisprudence…
- Next comes Mars, designated to Aries and Scorpio because, according to Ptolemy, they are agreeable to its destructive and inharmonious nature, and form a hostile square aspect to the ‘houses’ of the luminaries.
Synonyms
unmelodious, unharmonious, unmusical, tuneless, discordant, dissonant, off-key;
harsh, grating, jarring, jangling, cacophonous, screeching, raucous, strident
rare horrisonant, absonant
out of place, unsuitable, inappropriate, ill suited, clashing, conflicting, incompatible, mismatched, ill-matched, contradictory, irreconcilable, jarring, discordant
antagonistic, quarrelsome, argumentative, disputatious, captious, cantankerous, confrontational, belligerent, bellicose, combative
Derivatives
inharmoniously
/ adverb ...- To dance to imaginary rain gods or to chant and pray for a child dying of bacterial infection is not to live harmoniously with nature; it is to live most inharmoniously.
- His personal insecurities inharmoniously co-exist with a driving purpose.
- And each lurched inward, inharmoniously with its neighbors, in the grip of the overall magnetic field.
- cultual
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