harmonious

1 having a pleasing mixture of notes the naturally harmonious sounds of a forest glen in springtime Synonyms canorous, euphonic, euphonious, harmonizing, melodious, musical, symphonic, symphonious, tuneful Related Words blending, chiming, flowing, mellifluent, mellifluous; dulcet, mellow, melodic, sweet; echoing, resonant, sonorous; quavering, trilling, warbling; agreeable, appealing, pleasant; cadenced, lilting, lyric, lyrical, rhythmic (or rhythmical), songful, songlike; chordal, harmonic, homophonic, orchestral, polyphonic (or polyphonous), tonal Near Antonyms blaring, clanging, clashing, clattering, grating, harsh, jangling, jarring, metallic, raspy, raucous, scratching, screeching, shrill, squeaky, strident; disagreeable, unpleasant, unpleasing; atonal, off-key Antonyms discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonious, tuneless, unmelodious, unmusical

2 having the parts agreeably related a harmonious arrangement of archways and doorways in the palace courtyard Synonyms balanced, congruous, consonant, eurythmic (or eurhythmic), harmonic Related Words even, proportioned, regular, symmetrical (or symmetric); aesthetic (also esthetic or aesthetical or esthetical), artistic, becoming, elegant, graceful, tasteful; agreeable, felicitous, pleasant, pleasing, satisfying; coherent, cohesive, compatible, coordinated, correspondent, matched, matching; Apollinian, Apollonian Near Antonyms asymmetrical (or asymmetric), disordered, irregular, skewed, unequal, uneven, unsymmetrical; distasteful, graceless, inartistic, inelegant, tasteless, unaesthetic, unbecoming, ungraceful, unlovely; disagreeable, displeasing, dissatisfying, infelicitous, unfortunate, unpleasant, unsightly; clashing, conflicting, disunited, incompatible, uncoordinated Antonyms disharmonic, disharmonious, incongruous, inharmonic, inharmonious, unbalanced

3 having or marked by agreement in feeling or action an unusually harmonious meeting among the leaders resulted in a quick peace agreement Synonyms agreeable, amicable, compatible, congenial, frictionless, kindred, unanimous, united Related Words pacific, peaceable, peaceful; collaborating, cooperative, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic; noncompetitive, nonconflicting, uncompetitive; sympathetic, tolerant, understanding; affable, amiable, cordial, friendly, genial, neighborly Near Antonyms antagonistic, antipathetic, clashing, conflicting, hostile, inimical, unfriendly; belligerent, contentious, quarrelsome; contradicting, contradictory, contrary, opposing, opposite; competing, competitive, rivaling (or rivalling) Antonyms disagreeable, discordant, disharmonious, disunited, incompatible, inharmonious, uncongenial

4 not having or showing any apparent conflict no form of social discrimination can ever be harmonious with the basic principles and ideals of our nation Synonyms accordant, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable (to), congruent, congruous, consonant, correspondent (with or to), consistent, nonconflictingRelated Words self-consistent; appropriate, befitting, felicitous, fit, fitting, meet, proper, right, suitableNear Antonyms improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, infelicitous, unsuitableAntonyms conflicting, conflictive, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, noncompatible