discordant
discordant Lexical Profile
discordant Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Disagreeing or incongruous; lacking harmony, consistency, or agreement between people, ideas, or visual elements.
"The committee struggled to reconcile the discordant views of the board members regarding the new budget."
Harsh and jarring because of a lack of musical harmony; dissonant or unmelodious in sound.
"The novice violinist produced a series of discordant notes that made the audience wince."
Cutting across the bedding planes of the surrounding rock strata rather than running parallel to them (of an igneous rock intrusion or geological stratum).
"Geologists mapped the discordant dike that cut sharply across the older sedimentary layers."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English from Old French discordant, the present participle of descorder ('to disagree'), which derives from Latin discordare ('to be at variance'), formed from dis- ('apart') and cor ('heart').