inharmony
/ɪnˈhɑːməni/US/ɪnˈhɑɹməni/
inharmony noun: lack of harmony.
Noun
inharmony (countable and uncountable, plural inharmonies)
- Lack of harmony.
- In general, it is in exceeding bad taste to dye either lashes or brows, for it usually brings them into inharmony with the hair and features.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia
- Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I
- Synonyms:
- disharmony
Synonyms of inharmony
Forms of inharmony
| plural | inharmonies |
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Origin of inharmony
From in- + harmony.
Words that rhyme with inharmony
Questions about inharmony
- What does inharmony mean?
- Inharmony means lack of harmony.
- What part of speech is inharmony?
- Inharmony is a noun.
- How do you pronounce inharmony?
- Inharmony is pronounced /ɪnˈhɑːməni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of inharmony?
- The plural of inharmony is inharmonies.
Words near inharmony in the dictionary
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