Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wide from the purpose; contrary; discordant: opposed to consonant: as, “absonant to nature,” Quarles, The Mourner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Etymologies

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ab- (“away”) +‎ sonant (“voiced sound”), from Latin sonare ("sound").

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  • Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

    Latin ab + sonans, past preterite of sonare to sound.

    May 7, 2008

  • Those rappers who natter and howl
    Spew verse whose savor is foul.
    If the match is just assonant
    The rhyming is absonant.
    A rhyme is much more than a vowel.

    June 5, 2015