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Discordant

//dɪsˈkɔːdn̩t// adj, noun

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Adjective

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: […]"
2
Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.; 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."
3
Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.; Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious. also, figuratively
"[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 […]"
4
Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features. physical
"Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding."
5
Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.; Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands. physical

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6
Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
7
Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8
Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).

Adjective

1
not in agreement or harmony wordnet
2
lacking in harmony wordnet

Noun

1
A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things. in-plural
"In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’).

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