inharmonious
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- adjective
- /ˌɪn.hɑːrˈmoʊ.ni.əs/
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desarmonioso
- Two people, who live an inharmonious existence together eventually arrive at a point where the pressure is so great, somebody has to give.
Examples
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The painting had bright colors that clashed in an inharmonious way, making it unappealing to the viewers.
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The orchestra struggled to play together, creating an inharmonious sound that was difficult to listen to.
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All sounds make an echo, and many sounds create inharmonious effect.
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Listen, the condition of retrogradation is contrary or inharmonious to the regular direction of actual movement in the zodiac and is, in that respect, evil.
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We've all seen bikes whose graphics are inharmonious and fight the elegant shapes of the bicycle.
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Nine times out of 10, collaborative poems can't quite rise above the vaguely inharmonious elements of the two different voices.
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Above us, the inharmonious scrapings of chair legs against hardwood floors: my upstairs neighbor is clearing the table with his son.
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The VA and FHA denied home loans to residents of neighborhoods defined as "high risk" because "inharmonious racial" groups lived there.
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But we also suffer some of the worst feng shui in Asia because of inharmonious architecture, such as the knife-like design of the Bank of China tower.
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Your Auric Field is like a cloak that surrounds your Etheric/Astral Bodies, and it is either a cloak of light or a shroud of negative, inharmonious energy that you have accumulated over your many past lifetime experiences.
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Synonyms
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Not staying the same over time and not agreeing with other facts
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Not fitting together and often clashing in sound or opinion
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Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash
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Not fitting together, like clashing sounds or colors
Not pleasing together in sound, color or feeling
Not matching other things in look, feeling, or ideas
Not in agreement with something else
A sound that does not fit with other tones and seems rough
Antonyms
How Harmonious
Surface Forms
Morphology
inharmonious = harmonious (transparent) = in + harmony + ous
The meaning is a straightforward negation of 'harmonious' with the productive negative prefix 'in-'.
Etymology
Inharmonious breaks into in- 'not' and harmony 'agreement' or 'pleasant sound'. So, inharmonious describes something that does not fit together or does not look or sound pleasant as a whole.