Dissonant and Grinding

Dissonant

Dissonant adjective - Marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds.

Grinding and dissonant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grinding" instead an adjective "Dissonant".

Nearby Word: dissonance

Grinding

Grinding noun - A harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears).
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Synonyms for Grinding

Dissonant and grinding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dissonant" instead an adjective "Grinding".

Nearby Words: grind, grinder, grinded

Both words in one sentence

  • As it starts to play for the third time, a dissonant counter-melody emerges—the song gets as dark as the retraux soundcard lets it, eventually grinding to a halt before restarting.
  • Anime / Mawaru-Penguindrum Dissonant Serenity: The activation of the Child Broiler, which entails the grinding-up of unwanted children and reforming them as identical, invisible nobodies, and the torching of Momoka's hand in the same scene are announced with generic cheerfulness by a factory floor foreman.
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