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discordant
[ dis-kawr-dnt ]
adjective
- being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous:
discordant opinions.
- disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- Geology. (of strata) structurally unconformable.
discordant
/ ɪˈɔːəԳ /
adjective
- at variance; disagreeing
- harsh in sound; inharmonious
Derived Forms
- 徱ˈǰ岹Գٱ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- 徱·ǰaԳ· adverb
- ԴDzd·ǰaԳ adjective
- ܲd·ǰaԳ adjective
- un徱·ǰaԳ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of discordant1
Example Sentences
When the gags arrive, they’re clumsy and desperate: a discordant vomit explosion, some shenanigans at a court house.
Over a pleasantly discordant score of dreamy electronic chords and twanging banjos, Matthew finds pencil marks charting his growth as a child while these parents fuss over their own new baby.
The inauguration falling on Martin Luther King Day was a cruel irony, a discordant note struck on a day meant to honor justice, equality, and freedom.
And back as the stadium-filling rock legends that we know them to be, as opposed to the enthusiastic, discordant high school band they have looked like for so much of the season.
"For him to then spend most of the spring and the early summer basically talking about how he's the most successful economic president in modern history, it was just so discordant," he said.
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