Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unmusical.
- Figuratively, discordant; opposed; contrary: as, “absonous to our reason,” Glanville, Scep. Sci., iv.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
Etymologies
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From Latin absonus, from ab- ("away") + sonus ("sound").
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