dissonant

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}]
    

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.
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            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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115 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissonant":
      absonant, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes,
      at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, cacophonic,
      cacophonous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary,
      contrasted, contrasting, cracked, cranky, cross, departing,
      deviating, deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated,
      differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant,
      discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonic,
      disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident,
      dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers,
      diverse, diversified, flat, grating, harsh, heterogeneous, hoarse,
      hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant,
      incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
      inharmonic, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many,
      motley, multifarious, musicless, negative, nonmelodious, off,
      off-key, off-tone, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone,
      out of tune, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, raucous,
      repugnant, rude, rugged, separate, separated, several, sharp,
      shrill, sour, strident, tuneless, unconformable, uncongenial,
      unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable,
      untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying,
      widely apart, worlds apart