Discrepant

4 definitions found

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

  Discrepant \Dis*crep"ant\, n.
     A dissident. --J. Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Discrepant \Dis*crep"ant\, a. [L. discrepans, -antis, p. pr. of
     discrepare to sound differently or discordantly; dis- +
     crepare to rattle, creak: cf. OF. discrepant. See
     {Crepitate}.]
     Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different.
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           The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from
           the rest in their manner of worship.     --Cudworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discrepant
       adj 1: not compatible with other facts [syn: {incompatible}]
       2: not in agreement [syn: {inconsistent}]
       3: not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely
          discrepant statements" [syn: {at variance(p)}]

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

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "discrepant":
     adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic,
     antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes,
     at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, balancing, clashing,
     compensating, conflicting, confronting, contradictory,
     contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted,
     contrasting, converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised,
     countervailing, cranky, cross, dead against, departing, deviating,
     deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant,
     disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrete,
     discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate,
     disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct,
     distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified,
     eyeball to eyeball, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible,
     in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent,
     incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inimical,
     inverse, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley,
     multifarious, negative, obverse, opposed, opposing, opposite,
     oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack,
     perverse, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, reverse, separate,
     separated, several, squared off, unconformable, uncongenial,
     unequal, unharmonious, unlike, variant, varied, variegated,
     various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart