Word Meanings - DISCORDFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of discord; contentious. "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Related words: (words related to DISCORDFUL)

• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISCORDFUL
  Full of discord; contentious. "His discordful dame." Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.