Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking in harmony.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inharmonious; discordant; incongruous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unharmonious; discordant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The opposite of
harmonious ; lackingharmony .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking in harmony
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Examples
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American families were more than twice as likely as those living anywhere else to have so-called disharmonious relationships, or those defined by strong negative feelings, such as disagreement and tension, without any strong positive feelings, including feelings of closeness and amicability.
Livescience.com 2010
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As I'm sure you all know, in China, as opposed to the U.S., often asking questions that begin with "Why …", or 'making waves', are seen as being 'disharmonious', and thus undesirably troublesome.
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As I'm sure you all know, in China, as opposed to the U.S., often asking questions that begin with "Why …", or 'making waves', are seen as being 'disharmonious', and thus undesirably troublesome.
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As I'm sure you all know, in China, as opposed to the U.S., often asking questions that begin with "Why …", or 'making waves', are seen as being 'disharmonious', and thus undesirably troublesome.
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As I'm sure you all know, in China, as opposed to the U.S., often asking questions that begin with "Why …", or 'making waves', are seen as being 'disharmonious', and thus undesirably troublesome.
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In the combination are: statecraft defect: poor governance], terrible geopolitical constraints, dominating class structures, poverty and unequal development, matched by 'disharmonious' religious education.
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In the combination are: statecraft defect: poor governance], terrible geopolitical constraints, dominating class structures, poverty and unequal development, matched by 'disharmonious' religious education.
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments Logged in Lawrence Efana 2009
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But those who did sport the blue and white halves displayed it in spades against Fulham to give credence to the manager Steve Kean's claims that, despite a disharmonious backdrop, team spirit remains intact.
Morten Gamst Pedersen urges Blackburn to resist selling key players 2012
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Otherwise it may seem quite unmutual and disharmonious.
The Buzz on the Retroist Forum for March 22, 2010 - The Retroist 2010
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I have mustered up the courage to delve into my shadows consciously; to take an honest look at the disharmonious aspects of myself and to make the choice to challenge my anger with understanding, my distrust with open-heartedness and so on.
Akoshia Yoba: It Takes One to Know One: Dancing With the Shadow Self Akoshia Yoba 2011
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