Definitions for dissonant

dissonant dis·so·nant

Spelling: [dis-uh-nuh nt]
IPA: /ˈdɪs ə nənt/

Dissonant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 341 anagrams from letters in dissonant (adinnosst).

Definitions for dissonant

adjective

  1. disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
  2. out of harmony; incongruous; at variance.
  3. Music. characterized by dissonance.

Origin of dissonant

1400-50; late Middle English dissonaunte (Anglo-French) Latin dissonant- (stem of dissonāns, present participle of dissonāre to sound harsh), equivalent to disson- (derivative of dissonus dis

Examples for dissonant

My mother's aversions and attachments, habits and views, were dissonant with my own.

Even Strabo omits some names, because they were too rough and dissonant.

Cicero found it barren and dissonant, and as such he had to deal with it.

Benedict has made nice to Muslims since that dissonant Islam speech, praying at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul in 2006.

Their apparel is indifferent, so it be dissonant from the laity.

The ringers cracked a bell in Briarfield belfry; it is dissonant to this day.

She was fitted to this landscape, whereas the other woman was alien and dissonant.

It was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill.

dissonant music that might otherwise be found in a Kubrick film portend to the worst.

They were taller and bulkier than the Cambrians, and were speaking a dissonant English jargon.

Word Value for dissonant
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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