discordant

[US]/dɪ'skɔːd(ə)nt/
[UK]/dɪs'kɔrdənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not in agreement, not harmonious, not in accord
noun: discordancy

Example Sentences

a study of children in discordant homes.

the principle of meritocracy is discordant with claims of inherited worth.

the chair's modernity struck a discordant note in a room full of eighteenth-century furniture.

bombs, guns, and engines mingled in discordant sound.

the noise of cannon fire. Adin is a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds:

a rough homespun fabric. Somethingharsh is unpleasantly rough, discordant, or grating:

The mineral inclusions in the layered cumulate series are remarkably different in species and chemistry from those in the discordant dunite-troctolite layered bodies.

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