disharmonic

Definition of disharmonicnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonic
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
  • Symptoms from an unbalanced gut aren’t limited to your stomach and digestive system.
    Rena Goldman, Health, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In the short track 500 meters, Santos-Griswold made it to the semifinal, only to hit an inside block with her skate and become unbalanced and fall behind.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 14 Feb. 2026
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
  • My practice now includes a detailed history of eating disorders and monitoring for disordered eating throughout treatment.
    Jody Dushay, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For perspective, the help-seeking rate for those with disordered eating or eating disorders in the general population is between 32% and 40%.
    Emily Hemendinger, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Nhlanhla Zuma 60 Minutes South Africa remains one of the world's most economically unequal countries.
    Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The cacophonous construction in the film opening scene is of a ramshackle company hut for Junior’s whole family to live in — nothing more than a one-room shed, it’s cramped and unequal to the coming rainy season.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Viewed another way, the deal is the latest installment in the ongoing, if asymmetric, power struggle between the executive and legislative branches.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The expansion of the humanitarian system was untidy and asymmetric, driven by the organizational self-interest of the bigger international NGOs and UN agencies involved in crisis response and their desire for greater market share.
    Time, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • That concept is, after all, incongruous with the ethos and look of Eckhaus Latta.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • There can’t be too many quotes attributed to such an incongruous triumvirate, but then there are few instruments as polarizing as the squeeze-box.
    Jonathan Margolis, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.

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