dissonantly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English dissonant
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dissonantly

    From dissonant + -ly.

    Adverb

    dissonantly (comparative more dissonantly, superlative most dissonantly)

    1. In a dissonant manner.
      • 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 June 2022:
        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.
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