ab-sŏnus, a, um, adj.
I Deviating from the right tone , discordant , dissonant , inharmonious : sunt quidam ita voce absoni, ut ... in oratorum numerum venire non possint, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: vox absona atque absurda, id. ib. 3, 11, 41.— Hence,
II In gen., not harmonizing with a thing , not accordant with , unsuitable , incongruous; constr. with ab or ( = alienus) with dat. or absol. : nec absoni a voce motus erant, Liv. 7, 2: nihil absonum fidei divinae originis fuit, id. 1, 15: fortunis absona dicta, Hor. A. P. 112.— Absol. : nihil absonum, nihil agreste, Quint. 6, 3, 107; cf. id. 12, 10, 32.—Adv.: absŏnē , discordantly , incongruously , Gell. 15, 25; Ap. Mag. p. 277.