Vocabulary
Dissonance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
lack of harmony among musical notes.
Urdu meaning
ناہمواری، بے جوڑ، عدم اطمینان
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In Pakistan, this dissonance is hitting young people the hardest.
- And its internal `disarray` and jurisprudential dissonance have largely incited extraneous elements to intrude into, if not control, its space literally and metaphorically.
- The country has continued to march on a path of implosion, unable to contain the dissonance created by a conflict between what those controlling the state want and what the people want for themselves.
- And its internal `disarray` and jurisprudential dissonance have largely incited extraneous elements to intrude into, if not control, its space literally and metaphorically.
- The country has continued to march on a path of implosion, unable to contain the dissonance created by a conflict between what those controlling the state want and what the people want for themselves.
Synonyms
inharmoniousness, discordance, atonality, cacophony, harshness, stridency, grating
Antonyms
harmony, similarity
Curator example
“an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles”
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