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Meanings of dissonant in English

Lacking in harmony.

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        Not in accord.

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              Examples for "discrepant"
              Examples for "discrepant"
              1
              However, from a review of the literature, discrepant results have been reported.
              Pubmed
              2
              Cash-Payment: The Plugson Ledger, and the Tablets of heaven's Chancery, discrepant exceedingly.
              Past and Present
              3
              Sera giving such discrepant results were further characterized to assess their significance.
              Pubmed
              4
              Very few studies have evaluated circulating sulfides in humans, with discrepant results.
              Pubmed
              5
              Prevalence values and food types were discrepant between self-reported and probable food allergies.
              Pubmed
              1
              The commandants were at variance and there was indiscipline in the laagers.
              A Handbook of the Boer War / With General Map of South Africa an...
              2
              But too often our policy was at variance with our traditional values.
              The Guardian
              3
              The boy was hopelessly at variance with the spirit of the sea.
              An Outcast of the Islands
              4
              The potentates were perplexed and at variance, the nobles lukewarm and discontented.
              The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576
              5
              But head and heart seem to be at variance in this matter.
              Steve and the Steam Engine

              Unmusical.

                  Usage of dissonant in English
                  1
                  His rhymes are often dissonant; in his Georgick he admits broken lines.
                  Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
                  2
                  Now, with dissonant irony, it houses a major exhibition of Le Corbusier.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  And, at moments, this silence became dissonant with the clamour of unreason.
                  In Secret
                  4
                  A dissonant hum serves as disconcerting accompaniment to the otherwise silent room.
                  Wired
                  5
                  He snores on this note, he laughs on that, dissonant, unescapeable, unchanging.
                  Here are Ladies
                  6
                  What rumours go now among the people, what dissonant and diverse opinions!
                  The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
                  7
                  It was harsh and dissonant, a demented, jarring curse of a sound.
                  The Plains of Passage
                  8
                  I don't think these seemingly dissonant trends are actually in conflict at all.
                  The Verge
                  9
                  He had done it because he wanted to hear something dissonant and beautiful.
                  Hemlock Grove
                  10
                  At Magee, they did a wonderful job of simultaneously communicating two dissonant things.
                  The last lecture
                  11
                  And then there's moments of really high modernism … aggressively dissonant and irregular.
                  Wired
                  12
                  With dissonant leaders the compassion seeps away and it's about management by diktat.
                  The Irish Times
                  13
                  By and by, silence gradually succeeded the various dissonant sounds below.
                  "My Novel" — Volume 06
                  14
                  A certain dissonant chord in our little circle is Aniela's mother.
                  Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
                  15
                  There was another murmur, a buzzing dissonant with the airship's drone.
                  Perdido Street Station
                  16
                  A few abrupt, dissonant discords would, invariably, send them scurrying to their holes.
                  The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
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                  Dissonant through the time
                  Dissonant across language varieties
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