Meaning

Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
2. (geology, physical geography, originally US) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
3. (chiefly genetics) Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
4. (healthcare) Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
5. (mathematics, statistics) Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).
6. (chiefly in the plural) A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.

Example Sentences

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: […]

[T]hat vvhich vve call Conſcience is to be referred, namely, if by a due compariſon of things done vvith the rule, there be a conſonancy follovvs the ſentence Approbation; if diſcordant from it, the ſentence of Condemnation.

Thy ſenate is a ſcene of civil jar, / Chaos of contrarieties at vvar, / VVhere ſharp and ſolid, phlegmatic and light, / Diſcordant atoms meet, ferment and fight, […]

If, after all, he should experience an evil or unpleasant impression, let him throw aside first these volumes, as the lightest; then Cicero, Demosthenes, and every one else whose political notions, so discordant from those now prevalent, are represented in them; […]

It is very probable, that Hephaistos and other deities may have been known under forms of tradition variously modified, in Troas and in Greece respectively; and, indeed, in different portions of one and the same country. These forms, however distinct or discordant, the plan of Homer required him in some manner to amalgamate.

Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.

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.

Word Forms

• more discordant
• most discordant
• discordaunt
• discordants

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