Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.
--Longfellow.
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2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
"Anything dissonant to truth." --South.
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What can be dissonant from reason and nature than
that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should
show himself unkind and inhuman? --Hakewill.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissonant
adj 1: characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically
unresolved [syn: {unresolved}, {dissonant}]
2: lacking in harmony [syn: {discordant}, {disharmonious},
{dissonant}, {inharmonic}]
3: not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely
discrepant statements" [syn: {at variance(p)}, {discrepant},
{dissonant}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
dissonant /disoːnant/
dissonant; dissonantly
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