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inconsonant
adjective as in conflicting
adjective as in discordant
adjective as in discrepant
adjective as in disparate
adjective as in dissonant
adjective as in foreign
adjective as in inappropriate
adjective as in incompatible
Strong match
adjective as in incongruent
adjective as in repugnant
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in unharmonious
Weak matches
adjective as in unmusical
Strong match
Weak matches
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- at odds
- cacophonous
- clashing
- contradictory
- contrarient
- contrary
- different
- disagreeing
- discordant
- discrepant
- disharmonious
- dissonant
- divergent
- grating
- harsh
- incompatible
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- inharmonic
- jangling
- jarring
- on a sour note
- opposite
- quarreling
- rude
- strident
- uncongenial
- unharmonious
- unmixable
Example Sentences
For the reissue, Cale added eight new tracks: some alternative versions—including a second, more jarring “Heartbreak Hotel,” with distorted strings and other inconsonant noises—and some songs that didn’t make the original cut.
Chapter after chapter might be written upon the annals of Port Arthur, but they would be inconsonant with the tone attempted to be given to these pages.
Respectful as Lincoln was for all that he found thus fundamentally prescribed, and heedful as he was to indulge in no executive liberty inconsonant with those express decrees, he found his fortune as chief executive forcing him to move where all explicit regulations failed to specify the path.
Inconsonant, in-kon′sō-nant, adj. not consonant.—n.
But James's willingness to be pallbearer at the funeral of a philosophic idea was not inconsonant with his determination that some other ideas of doubtful character should be allowed to grow up and thrive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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