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Definitions: Harmonious |
HarmoniousAdjective1. Musically pleasing. 2. Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities. 3. Suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing". 4. Existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "harmonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Harmonious \Har*mo"ni*ous\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression harmonieux. See Harmony.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | Term applied to wine which is well balanced. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HarmoniousSynonyms: appropriate (adj), proportionate (adj), symmetrical (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inharmonious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Adjective: agreeing, suiting; Verb: in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with; Noun: at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours. |
Beauty | Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly. |
Concord | Adjective: concordant, congenial; agreeing;Verb: in accord; Noun: harmonious, united, cemented; banded together; allied; friendly; fraternal; conciliatory; at one with; of one mind; (assent). |
Friendship | Adjective: friendly; amicable, amical; well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Harmonious |
| English words defined with "harmonious": accommodating, accommodative, accord, Amicable numbers, antagonistic, appropriate ♦ balance ♦ Chiaro-oscuro, compatibility, compatible, Concord, Concordable, concordance, consistence, consistency, consonance, Contesseration, Coordinate, coordination, Cosmical ♦ Euharmonic, euphony, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy ♦ harmoniously, harmoniousness, harmonizable, harmonizer, harmony, honeymoon ♦ inconsistency, inconsistent ♦ music ♦ peace, proportion ♦ symphonic, symphonious ♦ Tunable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "harmonious": Beef, Beer ♦ co-ordination ♦ Dinner ♦ Filbert ♦ Guitar ♦ Houyhnhnms ♦ Journey ♦ MANAGER, HOUSING PROJECT, Music ♦ Nightingale ♦ Organ ♦ Sickness, Single, SRC Modula-3 ♦ War. (references) |
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Mrs. Jameson | In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of thought. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her whole toilette was indescribably harmonious and enchanting. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious. |
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Health | Treatment is highly structured and can at times be confrontational, with activities designed to help residents examine damaging beliefs, self-concepts, and patterns of behavior and to adopt new, more harmonious and constructive ways to interact with others. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | The Constitution prohibits speech and writing that would threaten the sovereignty and integrity of the Kingdom; disturb the harmonious relations among persons of different castes or communities; promote sedition, defamation, contempt of court, or crime; or contradict decent public behavior or morality. (references) |
Economic History | Austria | Labor-management relations are generally harmonious and strikes are rare. (references) |
Belgium | Foreign firms, which generally pay well, usually enjoy harmonious labor relations. (references) | |
Minorities | Philippines | Christian and Muslim communities live in close proximity throughout central and western Mindanao and, in many areas, their relationship is harmonious. (references) |
Worker Rights | Netherlands | Industrial relations are very harmonious, and strikes are infrequent. (references) |
Singapore | In addition the widely held view that labor conflict would undermine the country's economic competitiveness and attractiveness to investors, and a cultural aversion to confrontation help to maintain a harmonious labor situation. (references) | |
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Martha Stewart | Well, sort of. Except that it is the placement of you in your environment and your environment in the world to make your life harmonious. I think that's the best way to describe it. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Fulfilling that sacred duty, it is of equal importance that the movement between them be harmonious, and in case of any disagreement, should any such occur, a calm appeal be made to the people, and that their voice be heard and promptly obeyed. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | If it is ever used for the ends of government, it has to be incessantly watched, or it corrupts the sources of the public virtue and agitates the country with questions unfavorable to the harmonious and steady pursuit of its true interests. |
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| "Harmonious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Harmonious" is used about 291 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 291 | 17,055 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "harmonious": naturally-harmonious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
harmonious | 6 |
harmonious monk | 4 |
colors harmonious | 4 |
blacksmith harmonious | 2 |
harmonious wail | 2 |
harmonious society | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "harmonious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | muzikal, i harmonishëm (concordant, consonant, tunable, well-rounded), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منسق (arranged, coordinated, coordinator, in good order), منسجم (compatible, concordant, congruent, consonant, corresponding, in agreement), مناسب (adequate, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, conformable, congruent, congruous, convenient, due, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, opportune, pat, proper, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), متناغم (agreeably, compatible, congruous, consistent, in accord, in agreement, rhythmic, symphonic), متوافق (consonant, convenient, correspondent, suitable), متسق (consistent, proportionate, regular), متآلف (harmonic, united), مطابق (agreeing, coinciding, conformable, congruent, congruous, correspondent, corresponding, identical), عذب الصوت (mellowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хармоничен (concordant, harmonic, integrated, symphonious, tuneful), с хармонични пропорции, мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, euphonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), задружен (joint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 融 (melt, mild), 韶 (excellent), 調' (harmony), 龢 , 諧 , 雝 , 雍 , 邕 , 潗 (friendly), 廱 , 勰 , '谐 (Concordance, Harmonies, harmonisation, harmonization, Harmony), '諧 , 喈 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | harmonický (harmonic), melodický (canorous, cantabile, melodic, melodious, tuneful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | harmonisk (harmonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | harmonisch (harmonic), eendrachtig (unified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | harmonia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | harmoninen (harmonic, harmonic of a periodic quantity, harmonic tones, overtone), sopusuhtainen (symmetric, well proportioned, well-proportioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | harmonieux (harmonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | harmonisch (according, harmonic, harmonic(al), harmoniously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρμονικόσ (concordant, congruous, consonant, harmonic, symphonic, symphonious), αρμονικός (harmonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ערב (bailor, bondman, euphonious, guarantor, pleasant, succulent, surety, tasteful, tasty, toothsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | harmonikus (harmonic), összehangzó (harmonic), jó hangzású (euphonic), egyező (concordant, consistent, corresponding), egyetértő (coincident, jarring, solid), összhangzó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rukun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | armonioso (clean, concordant, consonant, euphonious, harmonic, neat, shapely, tuneful), armonico (balanced, full falvour, full taste, harmonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 睦まじい , 混然 (well-rounded), 渾然たる (entire, whole), 仲睦まじい (intimate), 'やか (calm, gentle, mild, quiet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なかむつまじい (intimate), な"やか (calm, gentle, mild, quiet), ""ぜ"たる (entire, whole), ""ぜ" (entreaty, petition, supplication, well-rounded), むつまじい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 조"되" (harmonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cordailagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | harmonisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | harmonioso, armonioso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armonioushay harmonioso (accordant, canorous, concordant, conformable, consonant, euphonious, flowing, harmonic, melodist, numerous, orpin, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, United). (various references) regulat (equable, even, legitimate, normal, orderly, ordinary, regular, regularly, rhythmic, rhythmical, smooth, staple, steady), melodios (canorous, melodious, melodiously, musical, soft, sweet, tuneful, tunefully), concordant (concordant, conformable), armonios (concordant, harmoniously, interfluent, sweet, tuneful), armonic (harmonic, symmetric, symmetrical), în armonie (accordant, consonant). (various references) гармоничный (balanced, concordant, harmonic, spheral, tuneful). (various references) harmoničan (harmonic, tuneful), složan (unanimous, united), skladan (concordant, harmonic, lightsome, suitable, tunable). (various references) armonioso (integrated, tuneful). (various references) harmonisk (consonant, harmonic). (various references) uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), düzenli (clean-cut, coordinate, dainty, equal, even, in good trim, in order, methodical, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, regular, right, settled, snug, stated, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy), ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious, tuneful), ahenklí. (various references) зekimiz (agreeable). (various references) співзвучний (accordant, assonant, concordant, consonant), гармонійний (according, balanced, conceptual, harmonic, tuneful), мелодійний (ariose, fluted, fluty, harmonic, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, sweet), дружний. (various references) h i ho (cosmic, harmonic), cân đối ho thuận, êm tai; ho âm. (various references) cyngan (suitable), cerddgar (musical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concinentem, concinentibus, concordis, congruam, congruum, consentiens, consentientes, consona, consonum, conveniens, convenientes, convenientia, convenientibus, multicanus, unianimem, unianimes, unianimis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "harmonious": harmoniously, harmoniousness, harmoniousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "harmonious": disharmonious, inharmonious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "harmonious": inharmoniously, inharmoniousness, inharmoniousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Harmonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: armoniosa, harmoneous, harmonicus, harmoniis, harmonius, Heironimus, hermeneus, hormonious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "harmonious" (pronounced hÄrmō"nēus) |
| 6 | -m ō" n ē u s | acrimonious, sanctimonious, unceremonious. |
| 5 | -ō" n ē u s | erroneous, felonious. |
| 4 | -n ē u s | contemporaneous, extraneous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, instantaneous, miscellaneous, percutaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: amorino, amorous, harmins, honours, maroons, mohairs, moonish, moorish, morions, nourish, ominous, rhamnus, romanos, sunroom, unhairs, unmoors, uranism. | |
-4 letters: amnios, amours, animus, arioso, arshin, arsino, hansom, harmin, honors, honour, houris, humans, humors, ihrams, inarms, inrush, manors, marish, maroon, miaous, minors, mohair, mohurs, monish, morion, morons, mourns, norias, onrush, orison, ramous, ramson, ransom, rhinos, rimous, romano, romans, rumina, shairn, shoran, simoon, souari, unarms, unhair, unmoor. | |
-5 letters: airns, amino, amins, amirs, amnio, amour, arson, arums, auris, hairs, harms, hoars, homos, honor, horas, horns, houri, hours, human, humor, ihram, inarm, irons, mains, mairs, manor, manos, manus, marsh, mason, miaou, minas, minor, minus, moans, mohur, moira, monas, monos, moons, moors, moras, morns, moron, mourn, munis, muons, muras, naris, noirs, nomas, nomoi, nomos, noria, noris, norms, ohias, onium, ornis, rains, ramus, ranis, rhino, roams, roans, roman, rooms, rosin, ruins, sarin, sharn, shoon, shorn, simar, sonar, surah, unais, unarm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: honorariums. | |
+2 letters: harmoniously, inharmonious. | |
+3 letters: disharmonious. | |
+4 letters: harmoniousness, inharmoniously. | |
+5 letters: chondrocraniums, echinodermatous, enantiomorphous, hemoglobinurias, outdoorsmanship, photojournalism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 6D 6F 6E 69 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r m o n i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 006D 006F 006E 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42678479818075818785 |
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