disharmonious

Examples

• All

• The middle class is the average, the clipping of the highs and lows as disharmonious.

  Blog text (26)

• It can't be disharmonious.

  Blog text (6)

• This shift from one extreme to the other has left little room for the intermediate possibility that dysfunction in the child, at times, results from a disharmonious relationship between a child with an adverse but normal temperament and an environment that is incompatible with it rather than generally detrimental for children.

  Academic text (1998)

• As my taxonomy of punditry reveals, the modern media have now spawned so many pundits that their authoritative voices blur and blend into a large, mildly disharmonious chorus.

  Academic text (2002)

• The disharmonious sounds coming from the old piano made it difficult to enjoy the music.

• The debate became disharmonious when both sides refused to listen to each other's arguments.

Synonyms

D

discordant

vsdisharmonious

9 7.4

Not fitting together and often clashing in sound or opinion

is the broader notion of lacking agreement across contexts rather than specific clashes

A

acrimonious

vsdisharmonious

9 8.4

Full of angry, bitter words in a speech or argument

expresses lacking agreement without the emotional bitterness or harsh tone

D

dissonant

vsdisharmonious

1 7.1

Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash

is broader, not limited to sensory or visual clashes

D

disunited

vsdisharmonious

1 6.0

Not joined or working together as a group

indicates lack of agreement generally rather than a group division

I

inharmonious

vsdisharmonious

1 8.3

Things that do not look or sound pleasant together

emphasizes lack of agreement or concord rather than pleasingness

U

unreconciled

vsdisharmonious

1 7.2

People or things that do not agree with each other

means lack of agreement itself rather than the unresolved state needing reconciliation

D

disharmonic

vsdisharmonious

8.2

Not matching other things in look, feeling, or ideas

is broader, meaning general lack of agreement across contexts

U

unharmonious

vsdisharmonious

7.3

Not pleasing together in sound, color or feeling

applies more to general lack of agreement rather than aesthetic mismatch

I

inharmonic

vsdisharmonious

9.9

A sound that does not fit with other tones and seems rough

is the general lack of agreement beyond musical or sound cases

D

dystonic

vsdisharmonious

9.9

Parts or people not working well together and causing confusion

focuses on lacking agreement rather than physical or coordination awkwardness

C

clashy

vsdisharmonious

7.7

Likely to cause disagreement or tension between people

is the state of lacking harmony itself, not the cause of conflict

C

conflictive

vsdisharmonious

7.0

Causing disagreement or tension between people

describes the lack of agreement as a state rather than a cause

Antonyms

H

harmonious

14 4.2

People who live and work together peacefully

C

concordant

1 7.3

In agreement with others or showing the same result

How Harmonious

harmonious

7 4.3

disharmonious

1 7.8

discordant

9 7.4

clashing

4.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology