Synonyms for unharmonious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hahr-moh-nee-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɑrˈmoʊ ni əs |
Top 10 synonyms for unharmonious
Définition of unharmonious
Origin :- 1540s, in music, from French harmonieux (14c.), from harmonie (see harmony). In nonmusical use from 1630s. Related: Harmoniously; harmoniousness.
- adj inharmonious
- It is the sharp, uncouth, or unharmonious clashing of heterogeneous consonants which strikes the ear painfully.
- Extract from : « Life of Chopin » by Franz Liszt
- It is only an unharmonious combination of dissimilar consonants that offends a refined ear.
- Extract from : « Chopin and Other Musical Essays » by Henry T. Finck
- Neither Gray, nor Johnson, nor Goldsmith were ever reconciled to what the last of them styles "this unharmonious measure."
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- And never have I heard those musical bells jingle one harsh or unharmonious sound.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 » by Various
- The attention of ancient Rome is always directed upon the puzzling, sphinx-like, unharmonious qualities in woman.
- Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
- If the mixture of many colours be unharmonious and disturbed, perplexity and confusion will be the result.
- Extract from : « The Use of a Box of Colours » by Harry Willson
- The Marchesa was one of those mixed types, unharmonious, common among mongrel races.
- Extract from : « Csar or Nothing » by Po Baroja Baroja
- All his intelligence is similar to this, which is to me harsh & unharmonious as a Ravens ominous Croak!
- Extract from : « Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. » by Philip Vickers Fithian
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