discordant

Meaning

Adj

1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
2. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
3. (also, figuratively) Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
4. (physical) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
5. (physical) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
6. Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
8. Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).

Noun

A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.

Opposite of

accordant, concordant, consonant, nondiscordant, undiscordant, undiscording

Synonyms

dissonant

inharmonious

out of tune

inharmonic

harsh

incompatible

disharmonious

disagreeing

absonant

grating

contradictory

strident

tuneless

ajar

incongruous

jarring

strict

unmelodious

unsuitable

different from usual

jar on the ears

not quite right

without union

dissentaneous

cracked sounding

harsh sounding

not compliant

adversative

aggressive

cacophonous

clanging

disagreeable

discrepant

disparate

false

improper

inadequate

incongruent

inconsistent

inconsonant

quarrelsome

rude

Translations

discordante

discordante

dissonant

wanklinkend

discordante

muhalif

karşı

uneinig

widersprüchlich

dissonante

discorde

wanluidend

ahenksiz

discordant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈkɔː.dənt/

Etymology

From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’).