disharmonic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonic
Adjective
  • From the start — before the start — Leicester’s season has been disharmonious, with the threat of a points deduction hanging over them, Enzo Maresca leaving for Chelsea in early June, Steve Cooper, his replacement, lasting five months and Ruud van Nistelrooy now the conductor of catastrophe.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
    Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • All of a sudden, everyone’s reality is completely unbalanced — nobody knows what to make of it!
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
  • Coral reefs suffered, fish populations became unbalanced, and the ocean’s health declined.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021
Adjective
  • The sound of this solicitation purr is especially inharmonic, and cat owners are actually more attuned to it than non-owners, so there's no learning to just ignore it.
    Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
  • The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • These could include actively promoting a diverse workforce of qualified employees from different backgrounds as well as work to remove barriers that have historically led to unequal outcomes.
    Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • But unequal access to land has locked in deep disparities along the fault lines of race, class, and gender.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • The cells have an ugly, disordered appearance under a microscope.
    Adam B. Kushner, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • In more severe cases, this ongoing pattern may erode a parent’s relationship with food, leading to emotional or disordered eating that feels increasingly difficult to name, let alone break.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Wright designed his house in the shingle style, a then-popular East Coast design characterized by an asymmetrical facade, large veranda, and wood shingles.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
  • The revelation is also viewed as emblematic of an asymmetrical labor-management relationship.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • This scuffle has separated the two groups of actors into flip sides of the same coin, where similar strategies are used for incongruous end-goals.
    Maximo Bratter, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2025
  • Multiple organizations sought to represent Japanese and Zainichi hibakusha, reflecting their communities’ incongruous postwar dreams.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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