All atonal synonyms
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A a adj atonal
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- loud — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- blatant — You use blatant to describe something bad that is done in an open or very obvious way.
- brusque — blunt or curt in manner or speech
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- grating — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- grinding — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- gruff — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- hoarse — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- husky — big and strong; burly.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- jarring — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- thick — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- blaring — to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
- unharmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- absonant — inharmonious
- braying — the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
- ear-piercing — extremely harsh and irritating to the ear: ear-piercing noise.
- squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- stertorous — characterized by stertor or heavy snoring.
adjective atonal
- twelve-tone — based on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique: twelve-tone music.
- noisy — abounding in or full of noise: a noisy assembly hall.
- rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.