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INCONSONANT

Definition: INCONSONANT

INCONSONANT

Adjective

1. Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Inconsonant \In*con"so*nant\, adjective. [Latin expression inconsonans. See In- not, and Consonant.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonym: INCONSONANT

Synonym: fickle. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: INCONSONANT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Changeableness

Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering.

Disagreement

Adjective: disagreeing; Verb: discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional; intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; inharmonious, unharmonious; inconsonant, unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to.

Inexpedience

Adjective: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit; (inconsonant).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: INCONSONANT

Language Translations for "INCONSONANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i papajtueshëm (discordant, dissonant, divergent, implacable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, intransigent, irreconcilable, relentless, unappeasable), i paharmonishëm (inharmonic). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير متعز. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

несъзвучен. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

disharmonisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασύμφωνοσ (absonant, discordant). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא עול" בק " אח" (inconsistent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellentmondó (conflicting, contradictious, contradictor, contradictory, inconsistent, perverse, thwarting), összeférhetetlen (churlish, ill natured, incompatible, irreconcilable, pugnacious, pugnaciousness, pugnacity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inconsonantay

   

Portuguese

  

inconsonante, inconsolável (heartburn, woebegone), dissonante (discotheque, dissonant, grating, noteless, rough, tuneless, unmusical). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

несогласный (discordant, unagreeable), несозвучный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neskladan (agreement: not in agreement, disharmonious, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, jazz, jazzy, noteless, toneless, tune: out of tune, tuneless), nesaglasan (disagreeing, inconsistent, nonconformist, unconforming). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin armonía, no armonioso, discordante (disconformable, discordant, disharmonious, transgressive). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i disharmoni, oförenlig (alien, contradictory, discordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, irreconcilable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyumsuz (discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, ill-assorted, ill-matched, inadaptable, incompatible, incongruous, inharmonious, jarring, maladjusted, out of tune, tuneless, unadaptable, unadapted, unharmonious, unmusical, untuned), ahenksiz (atonal, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonious, jazz, out of tune, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untuned). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

неспівзвучний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không ho hợp (inharmonious, jarring, unaccordant, untuned). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "INCONSONANT"

Words rhyming with "INCONSONANT" (pronounced 'In*con"so*nant'): Absonant, Agglutinant, Alternant, Altisonant, Asonant, Assonant, Benignant, Conglutinant, Conterminant, Culminant, Discovenant, Discriminant, Dissonant, Eliminant, Emanant, Equisonant, Examinant, fulminant, Germinant, Horrisonant, illuminant, Imaginant, indignant, Lenocinant, Luminant, Mendinant, Nonmalignant, Nonruminant, Nonsonant, Oppugnant, Ordonnant, Originant, Pennant, Predominant, Pregnant, Preregnant, Rayonnant, regnant, Remenant, repugnant, Restagnant, Rhonchisonant, Self-examinant, Self-repugnant, sonant, stagnant, Subalternant, subdominant, Superdominant, Terminant, Unconsonant, Unisonant, Vaginant, Vernant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: INCONSONANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-n-n-n-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: nonactions.

-2 letters: conations, consonant, nonaction.

-3 letters: actinons, canonist, conation, contains, sanction, santonin, sonantic.

-4 letters: actinon, actions, anoints, atonics, cannons, cantons, cations, contain, incants, nations, notions, onanist, stannic, tannins.

-5 letters: actins, action, anions, anoint, antics, atonic, cannon, cannot, canons, canton, cantos, casino, cation, coatis, conins, contos, cotans, incant, nasion, nastic, nation, ninons, nitons, nostoc, notion, octans, onions, scotia, sonant, tannic, tannin, tocsin, tonics.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-n-n-n-o-o-s-t"
 

+4 letters: nonantagonistic, nonconservation, nonrecombinants.

 

+5 letters: nonconservations, nondisjunctional, noninstructional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INCONSONANT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 43 4F 4E 53 4F 4E 41 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -.-.    ---    -.    ...    ---    -.    .-    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#83 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0043 004F 004E 0053 004F 004E 0041 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4348374948534948354854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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