Dissonant

a.	1.	Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. - Longfellow.
	2.	Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, - with from or to. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? - Hakewill.

Adj.	1.	dissonant - not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay" Synonyms: nonmusical, unmusical
	2.	dissonant - characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved Synonyms: unresolved
	3.	dissonant - lacking in harmony Synonyms: disharmonious, inharmonic, discordant

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