Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not harmonic; anharmonic.
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- adjective Not
harmonic . - adjective Of or relating to a
generation an odd number of generations distant from a particular person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'When the sun rose again' returns us to those 'disharmonic' harmonies, tabla taps pattering on the windows of this acoustic train.
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It emits a disharmonic hum that gives Old Joe goosebumps.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Anything that was disharmonic or overly beat laden was skipped fairly quickly.
My daughter’s first grown up iPod, and what she put on it 2009
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The Writers Guild's current contract with the TV networks and movie studios expires at midnight on Halloween, a spooky moment of disharmonic convergence which has created an industry-wide anxiety that feels eerily like a sequel to Y2K.
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They explore the web hypertext as an esthetic format in order to express identity crises that take the form of symphonic/disharmonic voices and fragmented, broken sequences of life stories that, eventually, form patterns of connections, reflecting, mirroring each other and linking as pages from the net.
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature 2008
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Here are some other words that start with dis to describe this movie… discordant, discrepant, disharmonic, disharmonious and dissonant.
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In kabuki, even if you speak the native language well there is a lot of loud disharmonic music, the Shakespearean Japanese is indecipherable, and the plot line would make all the bureaucrats in Byzantium wince.
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But suddenly he heard a jangle of disharmonic harpsong, and his shield was ripped away.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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But suddenly he heard a jangle of disharmonic harpsong, and his shield was ripped away.
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Not much give and take about Desert — restless, disharmonic, and a poet!
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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