harmoniousin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
harmonious as in: live together harmoniously
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We work to encourage the harmonious coexistence of different cultures.harmonious = friendly and peaceful
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The article is titled "Three Ways to Build More Harmonious Family Relationships".harmonious = pleasing
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Please resolve your disagreement harmoniously.harmoniously = in a friendly and peaceful manner
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The wind rippled past me like lyre notes, and my own breath seemed to pipe in harmony. (source)harmony = pleasing coexistence
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For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated. (source)harmony = co-existing in a pleasing way
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When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again. (source)harmony = pleasing coexistence
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In irregular small groups, disintegrating, coalescing, striking just the right note of disharmony, disorder in the big room, which Irene had furnished with a sparingness that was almost chaste, moved the guests with that slight familiarity that makes a party a success.† (source)disharmony = not co-existing peacefully; or having components that are not combined in a pleasing waystandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disharmony reverses the meaning of harmony. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world. (source)harmonious = arranged in a pleasing way
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The crying and clashing of the harmonies were an obsession in the melted bowels. (source)harmonies = well-coordinated sounds
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When he came to the tale of the great mother, the queen of all, who first learned to keep and teach the new queen instead of killing her or driving her away, then he lingered, telling how many times she had finally to destroy the child of her body, the new self that was not herself, until she bore one who understood her quest for harmony. (source)harmony = peaceful coexistence
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But then the girls settled into a sweet disharmony that brought tears to Theresa's eyes.† (source)disharmony = not co-existing peacefully; or having components that are not combined in a pleasing way
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In the Bottling Room all was harmonious bustle and ordered activity. (source)harmonious = well-coordinated
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Again, again–and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion. (source)harmonies = well-coordinated sounds
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...and we were right in sync. It was as if we'd been playing together all our lives. That harmony should have carried over and made us tough to beat in Pop Warner, but... (source)harmony = having components that are combined in a good way
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'In this way,' " I continued, " if there is any disharmony of interest, there will be no public embarrassment to either family.† (source)disharmony = not co-existing peacefully; or having components that are not combined in a pleasing way
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harmonious as in: soothing, harmonious music
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The changes created a more harmonious melody.
harmonious = pleasing
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The band's practice sessions don't sound very harmonious.
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It was his favorite, with its powerful, deep harmonies—he was a little sorry to be missing it. (source)harmonies = of music: pleasing (through the combination of different notes)
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As the notes overlap, they compliment one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony. (source)harmony = pleasing music (through the combination of different notes)
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She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod. (source)harmonious = pleasing
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I heard voices, among them my own, chanting harmonies in an ancient hall. (source)harmonies = pleasing music
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The orchestra struck up a lively tune and they glided off together once more, dipping and swaying here and there—harmoniously abandoning themselves to the rhythm of the music—like two small chips being tossed about on a rough but friendly sea.† (source)harmoniously = in a pleasing way
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The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.† (source)inharmonious = not pleasingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inharmonious means not and reverses the meaning of harmonious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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You would have to hear it yourself to believe the perfect pitch, the harmony parts, how the volume rolled up and down. (source)harmony = pleasing combination of sounds
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All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain; all thy request was my decree: But, longer in that Paradise to dwell, The law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal elements, that know, No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul, Eject him, tainted now; and purge him off, As a distemper, gross, to air as gross, And mortal food; as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by sin, that first Distempered all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.† (source)unharmonious = unpleasing soundstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unharmonious means not and reverses the meaning of harmonious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Then she said, shyly and proudly, "In these past few months, Aunt Hannah, we've come to a — kind of harmoniousness that — that, she began to shake her head.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds, and soon my own music!† (source)harmonious = pleasing
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Now the piano makes a long, familiar run, the pianist playing different scales with each hand—what sounds like three hands, four—the harmonies like steadily thickening pearls on a strand, and Werner sees six-year-old Jutta lean toward him, Frau Elena kneading bread in the background, a crystal radio in his lap, the cords of his soul not yet severed.† (source)
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She stopped and seemed very thoughtful for awhile, and then said smiling: "I must say that I don't like moving about from one home to another; one gets so pleasantly used to all the detail of the life about one; it fits so harmoniously and happily into one's own life, that beginning again, even in a small way, is a kind of pain.† (source)harmoniously = in a pleasing way
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