dissonate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be dissonant or harsh
The violins in this piece dissonated disturbingly
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissonant derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissonance derivation
- noise derivation
- dissonant derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissonant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissonance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | noise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissonant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |