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discordant

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dis·cor·dant  (d-skôrdnt)
adj.
1. Not being in accord; conflicting.
2. Disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant.
dis·cordan·cy n.
dis·cordant·ly adv.
discordant
Adjective
1. at variance; disagreeing
2. harsh in sound; inharmonious
discordance n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.discordant - not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas"
accordant - being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with'; "a place perfectly accordant with man's nature"-Thomas Hardy
2.discordant - lacking in harmony
disharmonious, inharmonic, dissonant
inharmonious, unharmonious - not in harmony
discordant
adjective 1. disagreeing, conflicting, clashing, different, opposite, contrary, at odds, contradictory, inconsistent, incompatible, incongruous, divergent
adjective 2. harsh, jarring, grating, strident, shrill, jangling, dissonant, cacophonous, inharmonious, unmelodious
Translations
discordant [dɪsˈkɔːdənt] adj → disonante
discordant [dɪsˈkɔːdənt] adj → discordant(e) → dissonant(e)
discordant [dɪsˈkɔːdənt] discord adj → unharmonisch
discordant [dɪsˈkɔːdənt] adj → discordante; dissonante


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There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Sikes struck, by way of Chiswell Street, into Barbican: thence into Long Lane, and so into Smithfield; from which latter place arose a tumult of discordant sounds that filled Oliver Twist with amazement.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
If, on the other hand, they find us either destitute of an effectual government (each State doing right or wrong, as to its rulers may seem convenient), or split into three or four independent and probably discordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to France, and a third to Spain, and perhaps played off against each other by the three, what a poor, pitiful figure will America make in their eyes
Federalist Papers Authored by John Jay by Jay, John View in context
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