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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Housekeeping What’s the antonym of “unison”?

posted by Christopher Frizzelle on July 29 at 15:43 PM

Annie Wagner and Brendan Kiley—editing a piece together—are looking for one word that means the opposite of “unison.”

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1

cacophony?

Posted by Nat | July 29, 2008 3:45 PM
2

division?

Posted by meggo | July 29, 2008 3:47 PM
3

Dischordant?

Posted by ds | July 29, 2008 3:47 PM
4

Division?

Posted by Xian | July 29, 2008 3:47 PM
5

Discord.

Posted by MattD | July 29, 2008 3:48 PM
6

Discord/discordant?

Posted by The General | July 29, 2008 3:49 PM
7

cleavage?

Posted by jmr | July 29, 2008 3:49 PM
8

cacophony

Posted by Jeremy | July 29, 2008 3:49 PM
9

Discord

Posted by Bubbles | July 29, 2008 3:50 PM
10

fragmented

Posted by words | July 29, 2008 3:50 PM
11

Unfissional

Posted by El Seven | July 29, 2008 3:50 PM
12

Harmony?

Posted by How about | July 29, 2008 3:51 PM
13

OOPs...OHAI Nat.

Posted by Jeremy | July 29, 2008 3:52 PM
14

Disparate.

It's tough without knowing the context. Voices speaking in unison do the opposite in a different way than circus performers moving in unison, if that made sense. Still, they all begin with "dis-."

Posted by Christin | July 29, 2008 3:52 PM
15

Seattle city council

Posted by MvB | July 29, 2008 3:52 PM
16

ison

Posted by jebus h. xst | July 29, 2008 3:53 PM
17

Dissonance.

Posted by A.fro | July 29, 2008 3:53 PM
18

The discords have it.

Posted by inkweary | July 29, 2008 3:53 PM
19

Dissension?

Posted by BFa | July 29, 2008 3:53 PM
20

Dissonance

Posted by Sarah Davies | July 29, 2008 3:53 PM
21

Incongruous or... oooh, here's a good one: heterogeneous

Posted by The General | July 29, 2008 3:54 PM
22

diverse or diversity
dischordant

Posted by DLF | July 29, 2008 3:54 PM
23

A fried egg in the armpit

Posted by levide | July 29, 2008 3:56 PM
24

Harmony? Opposition? Discord? Separation? Competition? Venomous, alcohol-fuelled hostility? Chaos? Entropy? Congress? American Idol?

Posted by Breklor | July 29, 2008 3:58 PM
25

Discord.

Posted by Greg | July 29, 2008 3:59 PM
26

Critical Mass?

Posted by StrangerDanger | July 29, 2008 4:00 PM
27

@26: And with that, the thread is done.

Posted by Dead Horse Detector | July 29, 2008 4:01 PM
28

Fragmented
Piece-meal

Posted by margie | July 29, 2008 4:02 PM
29

Right above the note section of afformentioned page 783 of the bitch hikers guide to unreality reads...

" A justice..."

furhter on down it states:

Unable to discharge efficiently..."


firther up it reminds us that,

" the law now provides that:"


God dammit I should be


The new douglas cheif jam roberts...

...unfortunately once you go berber, I can't flack without an etended hair weave.

Posted by danielli the sueprometheseaeist | July 29, 2008 4:03 PM
30

nonison

disunison

univision

Posted by boxofbirds | July 29, 2008 4:05 PM
31

"Variance" is a good antonym for "unison" when "unison" is a noun.

"They proceeded in unison."
"They proceeded in variance."

Posted by tabletop_joe | July 29, 2008 4:07 PM
32

Differentiation.


Posted by Jonathan Golob | July 29, 2008 4:08 PM
33

I think #30 takes it with Univision.

Really though, isn't the opposite of unison divide/division/divisionary, or whatever tense your using it in?

Posted by Dougsf | July 29, 2008 4:15 PM
34

Umm, how about "google". Took me about 5 seconds to find it.

Posted by blank12357 | July 29, 2008 4:15 PM
35

I'm with division in my mind, but Univision with my heart.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | July 29, 2008 4:17 PM
36

Divisisism.

"Flew off in all directions" if you're looking for some lovely allusion.

Posted by Fnarf | July 29, 2008 4:19 PM
37

7 for the win, but Unisom for the company.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 29, 2008 4:19 PM
38

solo

Posted by Krissy | July 29, 2008 4:19 PM
39

With 36 responses, I'm thinking "troll" may be the answer.

Posted by blank12357 | July 29, 2008 4:23 PM
40

Dissonance

Posted by Gitai | July 29, 2008 4:23 PM
41

Asynchrony

Posted by vooodooo84 | July 29, 2008 4:24 PM
42

Me-ison

Posted by Ryan | July 29, 2008 4:31 PM
43

Steve

Posted by Paul | July 29, 2008 4:46 PM
44

Ringo

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 29, 2008 4:53 PM
45

bi-daughter

Posted by josh | July 29, 2008 4:54 PM
46

Hows about disparity?

Posted by Mittens Schrodinger | July 29, 2008 5:21 PM
47

polyphony

Posted by skweetis | July 29, 2008 5:27 PM
48

dispersion

scatterdom

Posted by M.A. | July 29, 2008 5:29 PM
49

Quadrophenia

Posted by Jeff Stevens | July 29, 2008 5:29 PM
50

out-of-sync

Posted by elizabeth | July 29, 2008 5:43 PM
51

Divergent

Posted by Jenipeep | July 29, 2008 6:15 PM
52

"Democrats."

Duh.

Posted by PC | July 29, 2008 6:18 PM
53

Bison?

Posted by Meagan | July 29, 2008 6:19 PM
54

FARTZ!

Posted by abe | July 29, 2008 6:32 PM
55

tandem

Posted by bdb | July 29, 2008 6:41 PM
56

disarray

Posted by duncan | July 29, 2008 6:50 PM
57

Unison: saying the same thing at the same time.

Syncope: saying the same thing at not-quite-the-same-time.

Posted by kevbar | July 29, 2008 7:04 PM
58

@everyone,
"IN UNISON!" This is so far, my favorite Slog posting ever! I roared.

Posted by lark | July 29, 2008 7:45 PM
59

counterpoint

Posted by Eric in Boulder | July 29, 2008 7:51 PM
60

wahoozeewhatsit!

Posted by Non | July 29, 2008 8:01 PM
61

polysony

Posted by chunkstyle | July 29, 2008 9:12 PM
62


unidaughter

Posted by John Bailo | July 29, 2008 10:11 PM
63

antiphony - maybe

Posted by momster | July 29, 2008 10:27 PM
64

antimonial antipodes

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 29, 2008 10:29 PM
65

I'm with "@14", but let's invent a Noun: disparacy. ^..^

Posted by herbert browne | July 29, 2008 10:32 PM
66

piecemeal?

polyphony's pretty great as well

Posted by Alicia | July 29, 2008 10:43 PM
67

polyphony

Posted by lyriccoloratura | July 30, 2008 6:01 AM
68

Schism ?

Posted by Sto | July 30, 2008 6:03 AM
69

The Anglican Church?

Posted by lark | July 30, 2008 7:34 AM
70

dissonance!

Posted by thewholezoo | July 30, 2008 8:37 AM
71

Seattle Weekly

Posted by Dingo Rossi | July 30, 2008 10:27 AM
72

apart, alone, aside, asunder, detached, dissociated, distinct, divorced, freely, individually, isolated, reserved, riven, secluded, separate, separately, split

Posted by sprizee | July 30, 2008 10:29 AM
73

Use it in a sentence.

Posted by elswinger | July 30, 2008 11:27 AM
74

Clearly "ison" as the antonym of "unison" is the winner here @16. "Bi-daughter" is a close second.

Posted by robo | July 30, 2008 12:01 PM
75

Discord, disharmony, dissonance, disagreement, dissension ...?

Posted by Tiram | July 30, 2008 12:08 PM

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