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dysharmonic

dysharmonic is the alternative form of disharmonic.

Meaning of disharmonic

Adjective

disharmonic (comparative more disharmonic, superlative most disharmonic)

  1. Not harmonic.
  2. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation that is an odd number of generations distant from a particular person.
    • A person is 'harmonic' with respect to his own generation and all even-numbered generations counting away from his own, and 'disharmonic' with respect to odd-numbered generations. Thus a man is disharmonic with respect to his father and his son but harmonic with respect to his grandfather and his...1979, Barry J. Blake & R. M. W. Dixon, The Handbook of Australian Languages

Forms of dysharmonic

comparativemore dysharmonic
superlativemost dysharmonic

Questions about dysharmonic

What is dysharmonic the alternative form of?
Dysharmonic is the alternative form of disharmonic.

Words near dysharmonic in the dictionary

  1. dysgraphically
  2. dysgraphics
  3. dysgyria
  4. Dyshan
  5. Dyshans
  6. dysharmonic
  7. dysharmonically
  8. dysharmonies
  9. dysharmonious
  10. dysharmony
  11. dyshematopoiesis

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