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
  • This motion is typically caused when the unbalanced drum makes contact with the inside of the washing machine or when severe vibrations cause the machine to shift across the floor.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 15% for up to 150 days in response to unbalanced trade.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021
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
  • Data on sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea or sleep-disordered breathing, were not available.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The team explained that the disordered layered structure remained dimensionally stable as lithium ions moved, thereby preventing the sharp lattice contraction that normally occurs at high states of charge.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Among the central innovations of prediction markets is the idea that an unequal playing field might actually facilitate the truth.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Obviously reading at random won’t solve all the issues with unequal advances, difficulties in sustaining a career, and lack of diversity in publishing.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The actress wears a white asymmetrical top and black trousers.
    Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Across the Taiwan Strait, Taipei is pursuing its own program to develop suicide drones aimed at enhancing its asymmetric warfare capabilities and countering China’s expanding military pressure.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The comedy, often quite broad, is occasionally jarringly incongruous, and the dramatic stakes of the season-long arc sometimes vanish entirely.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Granting personhood rights to a river may seem incongruous.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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