jarringadjective
uk/ˈdʒɑː.rɪŋ/us/ˈdʒɑːr.ɪŋ/jarring adjective (NOT PLEASANT)
a jarring sight, sound, or experience is so different or unexpected that it has a strong and unpleasant effect on something or someone:
a jarring cry/chord
jarring colours
a jarring experience
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Balance and imbalance
- accord
- accord with sth
- align
- alignment
- balance (sth) out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- equilibrium
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- jar
- offset
- on an even keel idiom
- one man's loss is another man's gain idiom
- realign
- square (sth) with sth
- strike a balance idiom
- symmetry
- wash
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jarring adjective (NOT RIGHT)
wrong or unsuitable:
a jarring contrast
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Balance and imbalance
- accord
- accord with sth
- align
- alignment
- balance (sth) out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- equilibrium
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- jar
- offset
- on an even keel idiom
- one man's loss is another man's gain idiom
- realign
- square (sth) with sth
- strike a balance idiom
- symmetry
- wash
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jarring adjective (SHAKE)
shaking or moving violently:
a jarring tackle/collision
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
- bang
- bowl sb over
- broadside
- buffet
- bump
- cannon
- catch
- ding
- go into sth
- hit
- knock
- knock sb down
- knock sb over
- prang
- run (sth) into sth/sb
- run sb/sth down
- smash
- smash-up
- stack
- strike
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