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discordant [dɪsˈkɔːdənt] adj
1. at variance; disagreeing 2. harsh in sound; inharmonious discordantly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
discordant adjective 1. disagreeing, conflicting, clashing, different, opposite, contrary, at odds, contradictory, inconsistent, incompatible, incongruous, divergent He displays attitudes and conduct discordant with his culture. 2. harsh, jarring, grating, strident, shrill, jangling, dissonant, cacophonous, inharmonious, unmelodious They produced a discordant sound. Translations discordant [dɪsˈkɔːrdənt] adj [groups, opinions] → discordant(e), dissonant(e) to strike a discordant note (= seem out of place) → détonner (MUSIC) → dissonant(e) discordant adj opinions, colours → nicht miteinander harmonierend; sound → misstönend; meeting, atmosphere → unharmonisch; (Mus) → disharmonisch; to strike a discordant note (fig) → einen falschen Ton anschlagen discordant [dɪsˈkɔːd/ənt] adj (gen) → discordante; (sound) → dissonante, stonato/a discordant [dɪsˈkɔːd/ənt] adj (gen) → discordante; (sound) → dissonante, stonato/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For about fifteen years before James's Gifford Lectures, Binet, Janet, Breuer, Freud, and other psychologists had been charting the workings of the unconscious, and in speaking of "heterogeneous personality"--"a certain discordancy or heterogeneity in the native temperament of the subject, an incompletely unified moral and intellectual constitution"--James drew upon the wide range of discordancies they had examined. The election comes at a time of tension and discordancy within the guild, following a lengthy commercial-actors strike and a barely averted walkout by movie and TV actors under Daniels. Hypersecretors comprise a minority population of HIV-infected individuals in whom there is a discordancy between plasma viral load and genital viral load. |
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