Discordant
[dɪ'skɔːd(ə)nt] or [dɪs'kɔrdənt]
Definition
(adj.) not in agreement or harmony; 'views discordant with present-day ideas' .
(adj.) lacking in harmony .
Editor: Terence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
(n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
(n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Editor: Thea
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1].Disagreeing, incongruous, contradictory, contrary, opposite, repugnant, at variance.[2].Dissonant, harsh, jarring, inharmonious.
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Examples
- The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Will not a young man's heart leap amid these discordant sounds? Plato. The Republic.
- The salient facts of this brief summary will serve to show how discordant Pericles was with the normal life of his time and city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the beginning of the thirteenth century there were a number of separate and discordant Moslem states in Western Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Evidently irritated at not being noticed, the vain bird uttered a discordant shriek, which had the effect of making his master look up suddenly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I said to a deck-sweep--but in a low voice: Who is that overgrown pirate with the whiskers and the discordant voice? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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