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What does dissonant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to dissonance.
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The dissonant chords melt into nothingness giving the impression of not wanting to fight anymore, a cruel world left to savage itself away.
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
The drinkers perform a comedic caterwaul while the folk singers create a dissonant background to the absurdity.
What struck me for the first time was the relationship of this style with the style of jazz known as bebop, spurts of dissonant, jagged sound.
As the string continues its natural division, creating ever-higher overtones, the intervals between them become smaller and sound more dissonant.
Both compositions are quite dissonant and require careful reading of many accidentals.

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