English edit

Etymology edit

dissonant +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

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 New York Times[1]:
      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.