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adjective

Discordant adj.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. "The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce."

(Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. "For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart."

(Geol.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

Synonyms: Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; repugnant; opposite; contrary; inconsistent; dissonant; harsh; jarring; irreconcilable.

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Etymology of 'Discordant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discordant" Quotes from Famous Books

... A discordant note, too, was sounded by the South; Alabama, a state that they considered sure, although by a small majority, would go for the other man if the returns continued of the same tone. The only ray of light came from New England, whence it had not been ...

— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... valley Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but ...

— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill

... windward as he slowly filled his pipe afresh. The man with the fog-horn was still industriously blowing long blasts to windward when, ruthlessly cutting into one of these, there suddenly came—from apparently close at hand, on the port bow—the loud discordant yell of a steam syren; and the next instant three lights—red, green, and white, arranged in the form of an isosceles triangle—broke upon Leslie's gaze with startling suddenness through the dense fog, broad on the port bow of the Golden Fleece. A large steamer, ...

— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... senators had cast aside their encumbering robes, and were leaping over benches and flying down the aisles in wild confusion toward the shelter of the committee-rooms, and a thousand voices were shouting "Po-lice! Po-lice!" in discordant tones that rose above the frightful din like shrieking winds above the roaring of a tempest. And amid it all great Caesar stood with his back against the statue, like a lion at bay, and fought his assailants weaponless ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... sometimes thought that mutatis mutandis the same may be true of the bagpipes, the strains of which—'skirl,' I believe, is the proper expression—are not altogether discordant with the moaning of the wind over those desolate moors or the cries uttered by their wilder denizens; though, speaking personally, I ...

— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

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