Dis″so‐nant (?), a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant.] 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.
2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, — with from or to. “Anything dissonant to truth.” South.
What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? Hakewill.