a. [ L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant. ] 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. [ 1913 Webster ] With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. “Anything dissonant to truth.” South. [ 1913 Webster ] What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ] |