discordent

Adjective

discordant (comparative more discordant, superlative most discordant)

1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
   • For it is poſſible long ſtudy may encreaſe, and confirm erroneous Sentences: and vvhere men build on falſe grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine: and of thoſe that ſtudy, and obſerve vvith equall time, and diligence, the reaſons and reſolutions are, and muſt remain diſcordant: […]1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Civill Lawes”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 2nd part...

   Synonyms:

   absonant, absonous, at variance, disconsonant, discordable, inaccordant, inconcinnous, incongruent, inconsonant, nonconcordant

   Antonyms:

   accordant, concordant, consonant, nondiscordant, undiscordant

   1. Of people: disagreeing with each other; dissenting, quarrelsome.
      • Rumour is a pipe, / Blovvne by ſurmizes, Iealouſies[,] coniectures, / And of ſo eaſie, and ſo plaine a ſtop, / That the blunt monſter, vvith vncounted heads, / The ſtill diſcordant vvau'ring multitude, / Can play vpon it.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
   2. (also, figuratively) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.
      • [N]o other kind of liuing beaſtes both behold the fayrenes and the bewtie of the wordle^([sic – meaning worlde]), or is moued with anny reſpect of ſauours, but only for the diuerſity of meates, nother perceaueth the concordaunt and diſcordante diſtaunces of ſoundes, and tunes […]1551, Thomas More, “The Second Boke of the Communycacion of Raphael Hythlodaye, Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe: Cõteynyng the Discription of Utopia, with a Large Declaration of the...
2. (physical) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
   • Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.

   Antonyms:

   concordant

   1. (physical) Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands.
3. Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.

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