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Definition: INCONSONANT |
INCONSONANTAdjective1. Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. |
Etymology: Inconsonant \In*con"so*nant\, adjective. [Latin expression inconsonans. See In- not, and Consonant.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: INCONSONANTSynonym: fickle. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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 inconsonante, inconsolável (heartburn, woebegone), dissonante (discotheque, dissonant, grating, noteless, rough, tuneless, unmusical). (various references) несогласный (discordant, unagreeable), несозвучный. (various references) 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) sin armonía, no armonioso, discordante (disconformable, discordant, disharmonious, transgressive). (various references) i disharmoni, oförenlig (alien, contradictory, discordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, irreconcilable). (various references) 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) неспівзвучний. (various references) không ho hợp (inharmonious, jarring, unaccordant, untuned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 43 4F 4E 53 4F 4E 41 4E 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. --- -. ... --- -. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N C O N S O N A N T |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4348374948534948354854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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