Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dissonant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dissonant \Dis"so*nant\, a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of
dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare
to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See {Sonant}.]
1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.
--Longfellow.
2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
``Anything dissonant to truth.'' --South.
What can be dissonant from reason and nature than
that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should
show himself unkind and inhuman? --Hakewill.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dissonant
adj 1: not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay"
[syn: {unmusical}, {nonmusical}] [ant: {musical}]
2: (music) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically
unresolved [syn: {unresolved}]
3: lacking in harmony [syn: {discordant}, {disharmonious}, {inharmonic}]
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