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Unharmonious   Listen
adjective
Unharmonious  adj.  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unharmonious" Quotes from Famous Books



... conditioned by the excessive number of consonants, but rather by the way in which they are united; one might almost say that the weak, cold color of some languages is due to the lack of characteristic and strongly accented sounds. It is only an unharmonious combination of dissimilar consonants that offends a refined ear. The frequent return of certain well-united consonants gives shading, rhythm, and vigor to language; whereas the predominance of vowels produces a certain pallor ...
— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck

... for offences committed against the vehicle (whether it be the organ of seeing or of hearing) by which our pleasures are conveyed to the mind. We must take the same care that the eye be not perplexed and distracted by a confusion of equal parts, or equal lights, as of offending it by an unharmonious mixture of colours. We may venture to be more confident of the truth of this observation, since we find that Shakespeare, on a parallel occasion, has made Hamlet recommend to the players a precept of the same kind, never to ...
— Seven Discourses on Art • Joshua Reynolds



Words linked to "Unharmonious" :   off-key, sour, inharmonic, disharmonious, incompatible, dissonant



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