disharmonic

Definition of disharmonicnext

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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
  • From the start — before the start — Leicester’s season has been disharmonious, with the threat of a points deduction hanging over them, Enzo Maresca leaving for Chelsea in early June, Steve Cooper, his replacement, lasting five months and Ruud van Nistelrooy now the conductor of catastrophe.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Brown’s patriarch is the embodiment of that unbalanced relationship, causing chaos and expecting more love and forgiveness in return.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • The composition may feel unbalanced, the lighting less dynamic, and the moment itself somehow flatter than imagined.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • Jesus proved over and over again the all-encompassing authority of God, which destroys all inharmonious conditions, including sin and disease.
    Thomas Mitchinson, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
Adjective
  • Their colleagues then pay a workslop tax, having to make sense of long, disordered, messy material.
    Jamil Zaki, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • These materials are key to technologies such as ultrasound, sonar, and high-efficiency sensors, but their complex, disordered structure has remained a mystery for decades.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The stagnation is also producing increasingly unequal outcomes by race, age, and education, as the workers least able to weather a long search are the ones most likely to give up entirely.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • This diversity exists alongside a sprawling and unequal urban landscape shaped by migration from across Peru.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • The optimization approach focused on creating an asymmetric motion pattern similar to natural jellyfish, where the contraction phase is faster than recovery.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • She was known for her signature, sculptural draping and innovative asymmetrical gowns and designed for French cinema.
    Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • The administration has taken dramatic steps to restrict immigration in ways that critics say are incongruous with the type of unifying message that a global sporting event such as the World Cup is supposed to project.
    Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Even if my archive was unverifiable or incongruous, the hazy, contradictory landscape of Goodman’s life was the truth of her existence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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