dissonant
About 0.44 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing; not harmonizing or melodizing.
The music was filled with dissonant chords.
- adjective Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing or harmonizing.
Similar words
discordant disharmonious unharmonious inharmonious inharmonic unmusical unresolved nonmusical atonal ajar
Often followed by
with and chords chord note intervals to voices information
Word family
dissonantly
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