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Adjective: dissonant  di-su-nunt
  1. (music) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved
    - unresolved
     
  2. Lacking in harmony
    - discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic
     
  3. Not in accord
    - at variance, discrepant

See also: absonant [archaic], discordant, inharmonious, unharmonious

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