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at variance

at variance prepositional phrase: not in accord; in a state of disagreement.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Not in accord; in a state of disagreement.
    • Bill Clinton was elected on an untenable premise: that it is the job of the President to manage the economy. Yes, that is what we have come to expect of Presidents; but this expectation, the author argues, is punishingly at variance with anything any President can credibly deliver[.]1993 July, Charles R. Morris, “It's Not the Economy, Stupid”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2025
    • In some contexts, German usage is at variance with English, e.g.: Ihr Büro ist im vierten Stock Her office is on the fourth floor2011, Martin Durrell, A. E. Hammer, Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition, London: Hodder Education, →ISBN

at variance meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

at variance in Bengali

একমত নয়, অসম্মত অবস্থায়

at variance in Malayalam

at odds, not in keeping, inconsistent
പരസ്പരവിരുദ്ധമായ, വെെരുദ്ധ്യമുള്ള, വ്യത്യസ്തമായ, വ്യത്യാസമുള്ള, തമ്മിൽ ചേരാത്ത, ഇണങ്ങാത്ത
at cross purposes, in disagreement, at odds
വ്യത്യസ്താഭിപ്രായമുള്ള, വിയോജിപ്പിലായ, തമ്മിൽ ചേരാത്ത, വിരുദ്ധോദ്ദേശ്യമുള്ള, വിരുദ്ധ ഉദ്ദേശ്യങ്ങൾ വച്ചുപുലർത്തുന്ന, ചേർന്നുപോകാത്ത

at variance in Kannada

ವಿರುದ್ಧವಾದ, ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಭೇದ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ

Synonyms of at variance

Questions about at variance

What does at variance mean?
At variance means not in accord; in a state of disagreement.
What is at variance in Bengali?
At variance in Bengali is একমত নয়, অসম্মত অবস্থায়. See At variance meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is at variance?
At variance is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at variance in the dictionary

  1. at times
  2. at times and again
  3. at turns
  4. at twice
  5. at unawares
  6. at variance
  7. at very least
  8. at war
  9. at will
  10. at will employment
  11. at work

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at variance (page history and authors); at variance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); at variance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); at variance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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