-sənənt adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin dissonant-, dissonans, present participle of dissonare to disagree, be discordant, from dis- dis- (I) + sonare to sound — more at sound
1. : marked by dissonance : discordant
clamor of voices dissonant and loud — H.W.Longfellow
on white grounds, at least two shades often dissonant of blue are used together — Women's Wear Daily
held the dissonant factions together and patiently built it into a potent political machine — Time
2. : incongruous , dissident , discrepant
even his discussion of experimental science has touches of medievalism, which are peculiarly dissonant — H.O.Taylor
3. : disagreeable or unsatisfying in sound
the dissonant noises from the badly tuned piano
specifically : harmonically unresolved — contrasted with consonant
• dis·so·nant·ly adverb