DISSONANT

dissonant. dissonant, disagreeing

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dissonant. Dissonant, a. discordant, contrary, harsh, jarring

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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. 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. 2. 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.