Synonyms for inharmonious
- adjective
Most common
cracked incongruous disharmonious inharmonic off-key hostile unharmonious
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Rough — of behaviour, events, ideas, etc., lacking accord or agreement
discordant, rough, incongruous, dissonant, different, disharmonious, inharmonic, harsh, cracked, sour, incompatible, assorted, cacophonous, tuneless, unmusical, unmelodious, unmelodic, unaccordant, unconcordant, inconsistent, grating, jarring
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of behaviour, events, ideas, etc.: lacking accord or agreement.
Related words
- Word family
- inharmoniously inharmoniousness
- Is a kind of
- discordant dissonant
Choose the right word
Discordant is applied to all things that jar in association like musical notes that are not in accord; inharmonious has the same original sense, but is a milder term.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- cracked I cannot fill my pitcher with water. It's cracked.
- incongruous He has an incongruous sounding name which is hard to remember.
- disharmonious Some relationships are disharmonious.
- hostile The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inharmonious | steady | |
| cracked | rising | |
| incongruous | steady | |
| disharmonious | steady | |
| inharmonic | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- sour2
- 5 letters
- rough1, harsh1
- 7 letters
- hostile2, cracked1, grating2, jarring2
- 8 letters
- assorted3, tuneless
- 9 letters
- different3, dissonant3, unmusical, unmelodic
- 10 letters
- discordant3, inharmonic
- 11 letters
- incongruous4, cacophonous, unmelodious, unaccordant
- 12 letters
- inconsistent4, incompatible5, unconcordant, unharmonious
- 13 letters
- disharmonious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sour2 = 2 syllables).