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Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. Longfellow.

Not harmonic; inharmonious; discordant; dissonant.

Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Cowper.

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.

Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] "A ragged noise of mirth." Herbert.

The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord. Joint resolution. See under Joint, a. -- Resolution of a force or motion (Mech.), the separation of a single force or motion into two or more which have different directions, and, taken together, are an equi…