Discordant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not being in accord; conflicting.
  • adj. Disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. not in harmony or accord
  • adj. harsh or dissonant sounding
  • adj. serodiscordant
  • adj. of a differing type of rock cutting across a formation
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
  • adj. Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring.
  • adj. Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not harmoniously related or connected; disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; clashing: as, discordant opinions; discordant rules or principles.
  • Opposite; contrary; not coincident: as, the discordant attractions of comets or of different planets.
  • Inharmonious; dissonant; harsh, grating, or disagreeable to the ear.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not in agreement or harmony
  • adj. lacking in harmony
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