disharmonic

adjective

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as in disharmonious

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  1. disharmonious
  2. unbalanced
  3. inharmonious
  4. inharmonic
  5. disordered
  6. unequal
  7. asymmetrical
  8. incongruous
Adjective
  • Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
    — Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
    — Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Definition of disharmonious
Adjective
  • On deficits, China also appears to be making some moves in the right direction—though from a more unbalanced starting point.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the board passed an unbalanced budget that could fire thousands of teachers, open the door to furlough days and drive up our debt service.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of unbalanced
Adjective
  • We are made loving, good, and pure – entirely free from any inharmonious tendency.
    — Margaret Rogers, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Definition of inharmonious
Adjective
  • The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without.
    — ScienceNow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
  • The sound of this solicitation purr is especially inharmonic, and cat owners are actually more attuned to it than non-owners, so there's no learning to just ignore it.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
Definition of inharmonic
Adjective
  • Micelles that form in the liquid dope prevent the messy, disordered proteins from clumping and getting tangled.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Fundamentally, Beccia said, disordered eating is a mental health issue.
    — Sarah Todd, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of disordered
Adjective
  • That brings us to the question of what shareholders could do if Anthropic’s management proves unequal to the challenge.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • But this redesign must be paired with structural change that addresses the barriers, bias, and discrimination that contribute to symptoms being dismissed, delays in care, and unequal access to health care and treatment for women.
    — Sadiya S. Khan, Time, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of unequal
Adjective
  • In a trailer for the upcoming film released on October 27, the actor went nearly bald while showing off asymmetrical eyebrows.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The panel comes from the Genesis Runner, passed through the asymmetric spirit of the Daze Runner, so the paneling sweeps across the upper and tilts.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of asymmetrical
Adjective
  • Its presence is incongruous and inescapable, shocks of green in a sea of clay.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026
  • While this may seem incongruous with some of his emotional displays on the field, coaches with different backgrounds and specialties have consistently described Crow-Armstrong as approachable and teachable.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of incongruous
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