Dictionary Definition
harmonious adj
1 musically pleasing [ant: inharmonious]
2 exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among
constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn:
proportionate,
symmetrical]
3 suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes
were harmonious with her military bearing" [syn: appropriate]
4 existing together in harmony; "harmonious
family relationships"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Showing accord in feeling or action.
- Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
- Melodious; in harmony.
Derived terms
Translations
showing accord
- Dutch: harmonieus
- Finnish: harmoninen, sopusointuinen, sointuva
- German: harmonisch
having components pleasingly combined
- Dutch: harmonieus
- Finnish: harmoninen, sopusointuinen
- German: harmonisch
melodious
- Dutch: harmonieus
- Finnish: harmoninen, sointuva
- German: harmonisch
- Persian: (hamāhang)
See also
Extensive Definition
Harmony is the art
of using chords in music. More generally, it means "agreement".
In music
- Harmony (Schenker), a book by Heinrich Schenker on music theory
- Harmony (band), a melodic progressive metal band from Sweden
- Harmony (album), by Three Dog Night
- Harmony (Gordon Lightfoot album)
- "Harmony", a song by Elton John
- "Harmony" a song by The Ray Conniff Singers, from the same called album of 1974
- "Harmony," a song by Clinic from their 2002 album Walking with Thee
- "Harmony", a song by Happy Mondays from their 1990 album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
- The Harmony Company, an American stringed instrument manufacturer
- Harmony Records, a budget/reissue subsidiary of Columbia Records active in the 1920s and '30s
Places
In the United States:- Harmony, California
- Harmony, Florida
- Harmony, Indiana
- New Harmony, Indiana
- Harmony, Minnesota
- Harmony, New York
- Harmony, North Carolina
- Harmony, Oklahoma
- Harmony, Pennsylvania
- Harmony, Rhode Island
- Harmony, Wisconsin
- Harmony Township, Pennsylvania
- Harmony (Passions), a fictional New England coastal town which serves as the setting for the soap opera Passions
People
- Harmony Korine, American film director and screenwriter
- Harmony Rose, adult actress
- Harmony Kendall, television character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Other uses
- Harmony (ISS module), a segment of the International Space Station
- Vowel harmony or consonant harmony, "long-distance" assimilation in linguistics; see Assimilation (linguistics)
- Harmony, a technology developed by RealNetworks
- Harmony Airways, based in Vancouver, Canada
- Harmony toolkit, a never-completed Qt-like software widget toolkit
- Apache Harmony, a Java programming language Open source implementation
- Harmony Gold (mining)
- Harmony Society pietist, communal, German-American religious group that existed from around 1805 to 1905
- Harmony Historic District, Harmonists' first settlement in America
- Logitech Harmony Remote, a universal remote
- The Game of Harmony, a 1990 title published by Accolade for Atari ST (and perhaps other platforms)
- Harmony (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis
- Harmony Gold USA, television and anime company
harmonious in German: Harmony
harmonious in French: Harmonie
harmonious in Italian: Harmony
harmonious in Latvian: Harmonija
harmonious in Portuguese: Harmonia
(desambiguação)
harmonious in Russian: Гармония (значения)
harmonious in Chinese: 和谐
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accompanying, accordant, according, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amiable, amicable, anal, answerable, arranged, associate, associated, assonant, assonantal, at one, at one
with, attuned, balanced, blended, blending, blissful, bourgeois, brotherly, businesslike, canorous, cheerful, chiming, chromatic, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coadunate, coefficient, coequal, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, cold, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, colorific, coloring, combined, combining, commensal, commensurate, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, compatible, complaisant, complementary, compulsive, concerted, concinnate, concinnous, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conformable, conformist, congenial, congruent, congruous, conjoint, conniving, consentaneous, consentient, consilient, consistent, consonant, conspiratorial, contrapuntal, conventional, cool, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, cordial, correspondent, corresponding, coworking, desirable, dichromatic, dulcet, ecumenic, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, enjoyable, equal, equilateral, equivalent, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, eurythmic, even, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fellow, fine, finished, flowing, fluent, formal, formalistic, fraternal, frictionless, friendlike, friendly, genial, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, habitual, harmonic, harmonized, harmonizing, heart-warming,
homophonic, honeyed, in accord, in
agreement, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in hand, in keeping,
in line, in rapport, in step, in sync, in synchronization, in tune,
in unison, inaccordance, inharmony, joint, kind, kosher, likable, like-minded,
many-colored, matching,
measured, medley, meeting, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodious, methodical, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monodic, monophonic, motley, musical, mutual, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noncompetitive, normal, of a piece, of like mind,
of one accord, of one mind, on all fours, ordered, orderly, orthodox, parasitic, parti-colored,
peaceable, peaceful, pedantic, pigmentary, plastic, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable,
pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polychromatic, polyphonic, positive, precisianistic, prismatic, proportionate, proportioned, rainbow, reciprocal, reconcilable, regular, rewarding, routine, saprophytic, satisfying, self-consistent,
silvery, simpatico, sisterly, smooth, smooth-sounding, sociable, sonorous, spectral, square, steady, straight, stuffy, sweet, symbiotic, symmetric, symmetrical, sympathetic, sympathique, symphonic, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, systematic, tinctorial, tingent, together, toning, traditionalist, tripping, tuned, tuneful, unanimous, uncompetitive, understanding, unhostile, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, united, uniting, uptight, usual, variegated, warm, welcome, well-affected,
well-balanced, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning,
well-meant, well-ordered, well-regulated,
well-set