From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discordant \Dis*cord"ant\, adjective [OE. discordant, descordaunt, OF. descordant, discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. See {Discord}, noun]
1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. --Motley.
2. ] (Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. --Longfellow.
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}, adverb -- {Dis*cord"ant*ness}, noun [R.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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
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