DISHARMONIC Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

disharmonic

adjective

Definition of disharmonic

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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

Desperate to soothe symptoms caused by unbalanced hormones, women are turning to a TikTok trend that recommends combining allergy medication and antacids to treat conditions like PMS or menopause.

— Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
But for a team hoping to go big-game hunting, the balance between what’s being acquired and what’s being given up looks greatly unbalanced — depending on the team making the offer sheet, of course.

— Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 26 June 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

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Studies have found that Black college women, as a group, report greater body satisfaction and lower rates of disordered eating than white women of comparable weight.

— Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Research shows that such bodily scrutiny is already damaging transgender youth and that bodily shame can significantly affect young people’s mental health, leading to disordered eating and other physical and psychological harm.

— Megan Gandy, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

Definition of disordered

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The long tail of this policy-legitimacy gap is already visible in populist movements responding to the unequal distribution of benefits from globalization.

— Nili Gilbert, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Women thus choose to delay having children until the unequal distribution of household work is resolved.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Definition of unequal

Adjective

Meanwhile, for the New York premiere of Dutton Ranch, Stewart went for a more sophisticated look, pairing navy blue, open-toe espadrille platforms with an asymmetrical blazer and skinny jeans.

— Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
More recently, Swift has been photographed in Monse, wearing an asymmetrical little black dress designed by Kim and Garcia at Kelce's Tight End University event in Nashville on June 23.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 June 2026

Definition of asymmetrical

Adjective

Especially the guy who bangs a wrecking ball against the historic East Wing to make room for an incongruous ballroom monstrosity, who mars the sacred Oval Office with gold glitter and paves over the lovely Rose Garden.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The beloved Greengrass wallpaper, with its incongruous scenes of old New Orleans, has been absorbing the smell for many decades.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Definition of incongruous

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