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The answer DISSONANT has 6 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of dissonant in various dictionaries:
adj - characterized by musical dissonance
adj - lacking in harmony
adj - not in accord
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| Lacking harmony |
| Discordant |
| Interrupted by one's boy, poet almost sounding harsh |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Mar 26 2012 The Times - Concise |
| Jun 1 2010 Thinks.com |
| Jun 1 2009 Thinks.com |
| Jun 1 2008 Thinks.com |
| Jun 1 2007 Thinks.com |
| Jan 1 2003 The Times - Cryptic |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| lacking harmony. |
| Lacking harmony. |
| Harsh and inharmonious in sound discordant. |
| Being at variance disagreeing. |
| Music Constituting or producing a dissonance. |
| characterized by musical dissonance harmonically unresolved |
| not musical in nature |
| lacking in harmony |
| Dissonant description |
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In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Consonance is associated with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability; dissonance is associated with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability. * The terms form a structural dichotomy in which they define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and reciprocally. However, a finer consideration shows that the distinction forms a gradation, from the most consonant to the most dissonant. As Hindemith stressed, "The two concepts have never been completely explained, and for a thousand years the definitions have varied" (Hindemith 1942, p. 85). * The opposition can be made in different contexts:* In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective. In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds wit |