Word Meanings - DISCORDOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of discord.
Related words: (words related to DISCORDOUS)
- DISCORDABLE
That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell. - 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 - DISCORDFUL
Full of discord; contentious. "His discordful dame." Spenser.