Discordant \Dis*cord"ant\, a. [OE. discordant, descordaunt, OF.
descordant, discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder,
OF. also, descorder. See Discord, n.]
1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing;
opposing; not harmonious.
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The discordant elements out of which the emperor had
compounded his realm did not coalesce. --Motley.
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2. [See Discord, n.,
2. ] (Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord;
harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
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For still their music seemed to start
Discordant echoes in each heart. --Longfellow.
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3. (Geol.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction
of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by
a fault.
Syn: Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; repugnant;
opposite; contrary; inconsistent; dissonant; harsh;
jarring; irreconcilable. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
discordant
adj 1: not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with
present-day ideas" [ant: accordant]
2: lacking in harmony [syn: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "discordant":
absonant, adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti,
antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes,
at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, balancing,
cacophonic, cacophonous, clashing, colliding, compensating,
conflicting, confronting, contradictory, contradistinct,
contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, contrasting,
converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing,
cracked, cranky, cross, dead against, departing, deviating,
deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated, differing,
disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discrepant,
discrete, discriminated, disharmonic, disharmonious, disjoined,
disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissimilar,
dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers,
diverse, diversified, eyeball to eyeball, flat, grating, harsh,
heterogeneous, hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement,
inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent,
inconsonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, inimical, inverse,
irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious,
musicless, negative, nonmelodious, obverse, off, off-color,
off-key, off-tone, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional,
oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone,
out of tune, out of whack, perverse, poles apart, poles asunder,
raucous, repugnant, reverse, separate, separated, several, sharp,
shrill, sour, squared off, strident, tuneless, unconformable,
uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical,
untunable, untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated,
various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic
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