Word Meanings - HARMONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between

Additional info about word: HARMONY

See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe. 2. Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony. 3. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels. A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation. The science which treats of their construction and progression. Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARMONY)

• Affinity
• Relationship
• relation
• kindred
• conformity
• connection
• alliance
• similarity
• analogy
• homogeneity
• harmony
• correlativeness
• sympathy
• interdependence
• interconnection
• intercommunity
• Agreement
• Contract
• compact
• bond
• concord
• concurrence
• unison
• consonance
• bargain
• covenant
• obligation
• undertaking
• treaty
• Coincidence
• Chance
• fortuity
• casualty
• correspondence
• contemporaneousness
• commensurateness
• agreement
• consent
• Concert
• Onion
• combination
• association
• co-operation
• Concord
• Harmony
• accordance
• peace
• union
• unity
• unanimity
• amity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HARMONY)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to HARMONY)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• HOMOGENEITY
  See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• UNANIMITY
  The quality or state of being unanimous.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• ONION
  A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.