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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

desarmônico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dez-ar-mo-ni-ku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Disharmonious/ˌdɪs.hɑːˈmɪə.ni.əs/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O tom desarmônico da discussão surpreendeu a todos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Characterized by discord, disagreement, or a lack of harmony among elements or people.

    "The committee's meeting became disharmonious as members argued over the budget allocation."
  2. 2

    In musical or aesthetic contexts, producing an unpleasant or jarring combination of sounds or visual elements.

    "The modern sculpture looked disharmonious against the classic architecture of the courtyard."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix 'dis-' (expressing negation or reversal) combined with 'harmonious', which originates from the Latin 'harmonia' and Greek 'harmonia' meaning joint, agreement, or concord. The term emerged in the early 17th century to describe a lack of agreement, musical discord, or general incongruity.

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