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inharmonious, a.|ɪnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs|
[in-3. Cf. F. inharmonieux (Littré).]
Not harmonious.
1. Of sound: Not in harmony; sounding disagreeably; discordant, untuneful.
1711Felton Diss. Classics (1718) 26 Catullus, whom, tho' his Lines be Rough, and his Numbers Inharmonious, I could recommend for the Softness and Delicacy..of his Thoughts. 1784Cowper Task i. 207 Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 154 No inharmonious prelude to the last quietude and desertion of the grave.
2. Not harmonious in relation, action, or sentiment; disagreeing; conflicting; not in accordance.
1748Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 247 The Contractions of the Ventricles become asynchronous and inharmonious to those of the Auricles. 1846J. Miller Pract. Surg. v. 154 Squinting..The immediate cause obviously depends on an inharmonious action of the recti muscles. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iv. 230/2 Although they [Chinese works] do not present such a perfect colour-bloom as do the works of India, yet they are never inharmonious. 1899Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 2/3 Last Saturday's meeting of the Sliding Scale Committee was singularly inharmonious.
Hence inharˈmoniously adv.; inharˈmoniousness.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. i. xiii. (1834) I. 137 They adjudge them one short and the other long, and would be horribly shocked at the inharmoniousness of a verse wherein they should be introduced in each other's places. 1828Webster, Inharmoniously. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 30 Sept., Some prodigious caricature, in which the heroic and the absurd, the sublime and the vulgar, are inharmoniously but audaciously blended. |