Thesaurus / dissonant
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synonyms for dissonant
- discordant
- jarring
- raucous
- cacophonic
- cacophonous
- disharmonic
- disharmonious
- grating
- harsh
- inharmonic
- inharmonious
- jangling
- out-of-tune
- strident
- tuneless
- unmelodious
- unmusical
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In fact, no category is stranger or more dissonant with how America consumed entertainment during our pandemic year than Television Movie.
FORGET THE INDIVIDUAL SNUBS. THE 2021 EMMY NOMINATIONS REVEAL A FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN INSTITUTIONJUDY BERMANJULY 13, 2021TIMEThis is yet another season that brings a dissonant clash of hope and fear, chaos and progress.
BE BOLD, BE PROUD, SPEAK UP: RAISING ASIAN AMERICAN DAUGHTERS NOWSUSANNA SCHROBSDORFFMARCH 21, 2021TIMENeuroscientists still don’t completely understand how this system works, but they think it connects dissonant parts of our brains, which can help us find meaning in our chaotic lives.
WHY SPACING OUT IS GOOD FOR YOUELEANOR CUMMINSFEBRUARY 25, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEAn axe shows up in the third act, but The Shining is referenced throughout, especially through Kris Bowers’ shrieking, dissonant score.
JUSTIN SIMIEN TALKS ‘BAD HAIR,’ FOLLOWING HIS GENRE OBSESSIONS, AND GETTING ‘FREE AS HELL’ IN ’80S HORROR SATIREISAAC FELDBERGOCTOBER 22, 2020FORTUNESuch was the case for 2011’s Crack Up, the band’s first album in six years, in which band leader Robin Pecknold introduced dark, dissonant elements to the bands’ previously pleasant, uplifting sound.
EVERYTHING OUR EDITORS LOVED IN SEPTEMBERTHE EDITORSOCTOBER 8, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEIt produced comparatively little foundation tone and a powerful chord of harmonics, many of them dissonant.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLERNo Russian, whose dissonant, consonant name Almost rattles to fragments the trumpet of fame?Postscript.
NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYATChristmas, too, closed, and the steeples no longer jangled forth a dissonant peal.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTTPractise dissonant chords until they please the ear in spite of their sharpness.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWERIt was followed by shouts of dissonant laughter, unlike the cheering sounds of human mirth.
DISCIPLINEMARY BRUNTONWORDS RELATED TO DISSONANT
- anthologized
- assorted
- asymmetrical
- collected
- disparate
- dissonant
- divergent
- divers
- diverse
- diversified
- diversiform
- heterogeneous
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- indiscriminate
- jarring
- manifold
- many
- multifarious
- multiform
- numerous
- omnifarious
- omniform
- several
- some
- sundry
- varicolored
- varied
- variegated
- varietal
- variform
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- at odds
- cacophonous
- clashing
- contradictory
- contrarient
- contrary
- different
- disagreeing
- discrepant
- dissonant
- divergent
- grating
- harsh
- incompatible
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- inconsonant
- inharmonious
- jangling
- jarring
- on a sour note
- opposite
- quarreling
- strident
- uncongenial
- unharmonious
- unmelodious
- unmixable
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomalous
- antithetical
- atypical
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrary
- deviating
- different
- disagreeing
- disparate
- dissimilar
- dissonant
- distant
- diverging
- diverse
- factional
- factious
- irregular
- off-key
- opposite
- poles apart
- separate
- unalike
- unequal
- unlike
- unnatural
- unsimilar
- untypical
- variant
- various
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