Discordant

Quick meaning: Discordant is an adjective meaning Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.

Meaning

Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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, […]

[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.

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

• discordaunt
• discordants

Synonyms for discordant

Depending on context, synonyms include absonant, absonous, disconsonant, discordable, inaccordant, inconcinnous.

Antonyms for discordant

Common opposites include accordant, concordant, consonant, nondiscordant, undiscordant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dissonant, disharmonious, unharmonious, inharmonious, inharmonic, discrepant.

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