- Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
- Being at variance; disagreeing.
- Music. Constituting or producing a dissonance.
[Middle English dissonaunt, from Old French dissonant, from Latin dissonāns, dissonant-, present participle of dissonāre, to be dissonant : dis-, apart; see dis- + sonāre, to sound.]
dissonantly dis'so·nant·ly adv.




