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Definition of discordant

1disagreeing or incongruous:the operative principle of democracy is a balance of discordant qualities
characterized by conflict:a study of children in discordant homes

2(of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony:the singers continued their discordant chanting

Phrases

strike a discordant note: appear strange and out of place: the chair’s modernity struck a discordant note in a room full of eighteenth-century furniture

late Middle English: from Old French descordant, present participle of descorder (see discord)

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