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Dissonant
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.
2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." South. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.