Dissonantly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a dissonant manner.
"The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch."
Example
More examples"The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch."
Etymology
From dissonant + -ly.
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