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
  • 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
  • This could lead to serious health concerns or even a pattern of disordered eating over time.
    LeeAnn Weintraub, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Alongside legal segregation, separate and unequal categories emerged for Black music.
    A.D. Carson, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
  • Power Four schools may all fall under the same sharing cap, but their pockets grow with NIL in unequal sizes.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 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
  • Another man, rakishly smoking a cigarette and dressed in an incongruous outfit of sweatpants and a plaid peacoat, has painted his face to resemble the Joker.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The president’s ability to speak to the concerns of working people has always seemed incongruous with his biography as a billionaire real estate developer.
    Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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