Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Inharmonious |
InharmoniousAdjective1. Not in harmony. 2. Lacking in harmony of parts; "an inharmonious (or incongruous) mixture of architectural styles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inharmonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Etymology: Inharmonious \In`har*mo"ni*ous\, adjective. [Prefix in- not harmonious: compare to the French expression inharmonieux.]. (references) |
Synonym: InharmoniousSynonym: unharmonious (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: harmonious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Multiformity | Jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inharmonious |
| English words defined with "inharmonious": Absonous ♦ Cat and dog ♦ Halsening ♦ Immusical, Incompatible terms, Incongruous numbers, Inharmonical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inharmonious": Banquet ♦ Coal-hod, Convention ♦ Flux ♦ Husband ♦ Party ♦ Raven ♦ Vinegar. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inharmonious": Halsening. (references) |
| "Inharmonious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inharmonious" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
inharmonious | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inharmonious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | joharmonik (dissonant). (various references) | |
Arabic | متنافر (conflicting, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, grotesque, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, jarring), غير متآلف النغمات (inharmonic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нестроен, нехармоничен (discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不和谐. (various references) | |
Czech | neharmonický (inharmonic). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناموزون(inharmonic)(م.م.), بی اهنگ . (various references) | |
French | inharmonieux (inharmonic), peu harmonieux. (various references) | |
German | unharmonische (unharmoniously). (various references) | |
Greek | όχι αρμονικόσ (tuneless). (various references) | |
Hungarian | diszharmonikus (jarring). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn cheet ry-cheilley. (various references) | |
Norwegian | uharmonisk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inharmoniousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inarmnico (ill-placed, incongruous), desarmonioso (ajar, disharmonious), com pouca harmonia. (various references) | |
Romanian | nearmonic. (various references) | |
Russian | негармоничный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neskladan (agreement: not in agreement, disharmonious, inconsonant, inharmonic, jarring, jazz, jazzy, noteless, toneless, tune: out of tune, tuneless), neharmoničan (inharmonic, toneless, tune: out of tune, tuneless). (various references) | |
Spanish | inarmónico. (various references) | |
Swedish | oharmonisk. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งไม่ลงรอยกัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | uyumsuz (discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, ill-assorted, ill-matched, inadaptable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsonant, jarring, maladjusted, out of tune, tuneless, unadaptable, unadapted, unharmonious, unmusical, untuned), ahenksiz (atonal, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inconsonant, jazz, out of tune, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untuned). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | негармонійний (discordant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không hoà hợp (inconsonant, jarring, unaccordant, untuned), không hài hoà, không êm tai (unmelodious), chối tai không hoà thuận. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inharmonious": inharmoniously, inharmoniousness, inharmoniousnesses. (additional references) | |
| |
"Inharmonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inharmoniuos, inharmonius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inharmonious" (pronounced 'In`har*mo"ni*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: harmonious. | |
-3 letters: hominians. | |
-4 letters: hominian, insomnia, misunion, monurons, unionism. | |
-5 letters: amnions, amorini, amorino, amorous, harmins, honours, inhuman, ioniums, mannish, mansion, maroons, minions, mohairs, monuron, moonish, moorish, morions, nimious, noirish, nourish, ominous, onanism, rhamnus, romanos, ronions, sunroom, unhairs, unmoors, unshorn, uranism. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: inharmoniously. | |
+4 letters: inharmoniousness. | |
| 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. | |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
