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  1. not agreeing with or not the same as other things, usually in a way that is strange or hard to accept: Amid the celebrations over the passage of the reform bill this week, one dissonant voice could be heard. Fewer examples. Roosters break into a dissonant chorus at dawn.

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      DISSONANT meaning: 1. (of sounds or musical notes) sounding...

  2. 1. : marked by dissonance : discordant. 2. : incongruous. 3. : harmonically unresolved. dissonantly adverb. Did you know? The root of "dissonant" is the Latin verb sonare. Can you guess what "sonare" means? Here's a hint: some related derivatives are "sonata," "supersonic," and "resonance."

  3. Dissonant is an adjective used to describe noise thats harsh and inharmonious. It’s also used to describe things that are in stark disagreement or that lack consistency. In both cases, a close synonym is discordant. The state of being dissonant is dissonance.

  4. 1. discordant; cacophonous. 2. incongruous or discrepant. 3. music. characterized by dissonance. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. dissonantly (ˈdissonantly) adverb. Word origin. C15: from Latin dissonāre to be discordant, from dis-1 + sonāre to sound. You may also like. Word Frequency.

  5. Define dissonant. dissonant synonyms, dissonant pronunciation, dissonant translation, English dictionary definition of dissonant. adj. 1. Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant. 2. Being at variance; disagreeing. 3. Music Constituting or producing a dissonance. dis′so·nant·ly adv....

  6. When a noise is dissonant, it sounds like it's broken apart, or not meshing together well. Dissonant doesn't have to describe just music or sounds. It can also refer to something that clashes or doesn't fit well together.

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