Syncopated

The bass line is highly syncopated.

This is a heavily syncopated piece.

The music that Mary listens to is very syncopated and unpredictable.

Our eyes are opened to see other colors than purple and gold, our ears to hear understandingly other sounds than the roar of traffic, the shriek of an automobile horn, or syncopated music.

At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”