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discordful

discordful adjective: full of discord; contentious, quarrelsome.

Adjective

discordful (comparative more discordful, superlative most discordful)

  1. (rare) Full of discord; contentious, quarrelsome.
    • But Blandamour full of vainglorious spright, / And rather stird by his discordfull Dame, / Upon them gladly would have prov'd his might […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of discordful

comparativemore discordful
superlativemost discordful

Origin of discordful

From discord + -ful.

Questions about discordful

What does discordful mean?
Discordful means full of discord; contentious, quarrelsome.
What part of speech is discordful?
Discordful is an adjective.

Words near discordful in the dictionary

  1. discordaunce
  2. discordaunces
  3. discordaunt
  4. discorded
  5. discordent
  6. discordful
  7. Discordia
  8. Discordian
  9. Discordianism
  10. Discordianist
  11. Discordianists

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