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English Dictionary: dissonant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissonant adj characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved Synonym(s): unresolved, dissonant lacking in harmony Synonym(s): discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements" Synonym(s): at variance(p), discrepant, dissonant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissonant \Dis"sonant\, a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See {Sonant}.] 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant* and loud. --Longfellow. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. [bd]Anything dissonant to truth.[b8] --South. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? --Hakewill.