discordant

Speech parts

1. discordant - Noun

2. discordant - Adjective

3. discordant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.

Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Heraclitus

The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation. Carroll Quigley

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. Edmund Burke

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Adelaide Anne Procter

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. Edward Weston

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