disharmonic

adjective

dis·​harmonic

variants or disharmonious or less commonly disharmonical

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1

: lacking in harmony : not harmonic or harmonious

2

a

: having a combination of bodily characters that results in an unusual form or appearance

the disharmonic skeletal remains of certain European fossil hominids may result from interbreeding of separate distinct races

b

: allometric

c

: constituting a folded geologic structure in which the form of the fold in deeper beds differs from that in the overlying beds

Word History

Etymology

dis- entry 1 + harmonic or harmonious or harmonical

First Known Use

1659, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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Rhymes for disharmonic

• anharmonic
• anionic
• avionic
• catatonic
• cationic
• chorionic
• cosmogonic
• diachronic
• diatonic
• electronic
• embryonic
• excitonic