Discordant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discordant \Dis*cord"ant\, a. [OE. discordant, descordaunt, OF.
     descordant, discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder,
     OF. also, descorder. See {Discord}, n.]
     1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing;
        opposing; not harmonious.
        [1913 Webster]


  
              The discordant elements out of which the emperor had
              compounded his realm did not coalesce. --Motley.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. [See {Discord}, n.,
  
     2. ] (Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord;
        harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              For still their music seemed to start
              Discordant echoes in each heart.      --Longfellow.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Geol.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction
        of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by
        a fault.
  
     Syn: Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; repugnant;
          opposite; contrary; inconsistent; dissonant; harsh;
          jarring; irreconcilable. -- {Dis*cord"ant*ly}, adv. --
          {Dis*cord"ant*ness}, n. [R.]
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discordant
       adj 1: not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with
              present-day ideas" [ant: {accordant}]
       2: lacking in harmony [syn: {disharmonious}, {dissonant}, {inharmonic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "discordant":
     absonant, adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti,
     antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes,
     at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, balancing,
     cacophonic, cacophonous, clashing, colliding, compensating,
     conflicting, confronting, contradictory, contradistinct,
     contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, contrasting,
     converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing,
     cracked, cranky, cross, dead against, departing, deviating,
     deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated, differing,
     disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discrepant,
     discrete, discriminated, disharmonic, disharmonious, disjoined,
     disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissimilar,
     dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers,
     diverse, diversified, eyeball to eyeball, flat, grating, harsh,
     heterogeneous, hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement,
     inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent,
     inconsonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, inimical, inverse,
     irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious,
     musicless, negative, nonmelodious, obverse, off, off-color,
     off-key, off-tone, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional,
     oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone,
     out of tune, out of whack, perverse, poles apart, poles asunder,
     raucous, repugnant, reverse, separate, separated, several, sharp,
     shrill, sour, squared off, strident, tuneless, unconformable,
     uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical,
     untunable, untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated,
     various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart