| 单词 | dissonant |
| 释义 | dissonant (once / 5503 pages) adj If things don't go together well, you can call them dissonant. Dissonant voices are saying different things. Dissonant clothing choices clash. Dissonant chords lack harmony. The word dissonant comes from the Old French dis- meaning "apart" and sonare meaning "to sound." When a noise is dissonant, it sounds like it's broken apart, or not meshing together well. Dissonant doesn't have to describe just music or sounds. It can also refer to something that clashes or doesn't fit well together. When two people's versions of a story are dissonant, that means they don't match. Either one of them is lying or they just don't see eye-to-eye. WORD FAMILYdissonant: dissonance, dissonantly+/dissonance: dissonances USAGE EXAMPLESEven with the Army and the Navy present at the stadium, there is a requirement for hired armed forces—what a dissonant, if understandable, concept. Wall Street Journal(Dec 03, 2016) The Andante contains some of the most dissonant passages Mozart ever wrote, but here they glided by smoothly without particular notice. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) Do they observe the historically dissonant holiday, mourn the genocide of their ancestors, celebrate the “water protector” movement, or break bread with Jane Fonda? The Guardian(Nov 24, 2016) 1adj characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved Syn unresolved inharmonious, unharmonious not in harmony 2adj lacking in harmony Syn discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic inharmonious, unharmonious not in harmony 3adj not in accord Syn at variance, discrepant discordant not in agreement or harmony |
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