discordantadj.n.

Brit.

/dɪˈskɔːdnt/, U.S.

/ˌdɪˈskɔrdənt/

Forms: Middle English descordant, Middle English–1500s discordaunt, Middle English–1500s discordaunte, Middle English–1500s dyscordaunt, Middle English– discordant, 1500s discordante, 1500s dyscordant, 1500s dyscordante, 1500s dyscordaunte; also Scottish pre-1700 descordant, pre-1700 discordaunt.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French discordant, discorder.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman descordaunt, discordaunt, Anglo-Norman and Middle French descordant, discordant (French discordant ) (of things) in disagreement, at variance (c1250 or earlier in Old French), (of people) quarrelsome (a1325 or earlier), use as adjective of present participle of descorder, discorder discord v.¹ Compare Catalan discordant (14th cent.), Spanish discordante (mid 13th cent. as †descordante ), Portuguese discordante (14th cent.), Italian discordante (a1292). Compare discord adj., discording adj.The specific use in music (sense A. 2a) is not dated in dictionaries of French. The Old French original of quot. a1425 at sense A. 2a uses Une hore dit lés et descors ‘At one time he (sc. Wicked Tongue, French Male-Bouche ) plays lais and descorts (a type of song)’, which may have influenced the choice of discordaunt in the Middle English version. In sense A. 3b after German diskordant (1896 in this sense: A. Supan Grundzüge der physischen Erdkunde (ed. 2) iv. 575).

A. adj.

a. Incongruous, in disagreement; lacking harmony or agreement; conflicting; at variance. Sometimes followed by †fro, from, †till, to, †unto, with another person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective]

discordablea1393

discordanta1393

discordinga1398

incongruea1398

inconvenient1398

unaccording1398

discordc1415

disagreeablea1425

inconsutilec1450

unaccordanta1470

dissonant1490

disaccordanta1513

disagreeing?1526

incongruent1531

wide1531

unconsonant1535

dissonate1548

dissenting1550

dissident?c1550

unagreeable?1550

disconformc1554

discrepant1556

absonant1564

dissentany1586

disconsorted1589

disagreed1596

discordous1597

discordious1598

incorrespondent1599

dissentious1605

untunable1605

incongruous1611

unagreeing1611

unanswerable1611

eccentric1612

unconcurrent1613

disconsonant1614

dissentaneous1623

dissorting1631

uncorrespondent1631

discorrespondent1635

incoincident1636

unconcurring1639

eccentrical1640

unatonable1645

incompliant1647

pluranimous1650

disconformeda1658

inagreeable1657

inconsonant1658

disharmonious1659

inconcinn1660

discongruous1663

unharmonious1667

discoherent1675

uncongruous1709

inharmonious1749

immutual1768

unharmonized1803

unconsentaneous1818

inaccordant1822

uncorresponding1826

unharmonizing1851

non-concurring1866

discordful1867

disharmonic1887

non-concurrent1907

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2314 It is gretly descordant Unto the Scoles of Athene.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1037 No discordaunt þing y-fere. As þus to vsen termes of Phisyk.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 96 As discordant as day is vn-to nyught.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vii. 47 Be syk enuy he dois mony thingis yat ar discordaunt till his ordre.

1516 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. (1811) ii. xlvi. 29 After hym reygned .xx. Kynges successyuely..of the whiche..is no mencyon made eyther for their rudenesse..or discordaunt meanes, or maners.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) I. 20 He was far discordant fra him in maneris.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lxxv^v So longe as he is so dyscordaunte to hymselfe.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 140 The reasons and resolutions are, and must remain discordant.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 57 If discordant from it, the sentence of Condemnation [follows].

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. i. 75 His Wife at home..disdain'd to do any thing discordant to those Hopes.

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 173 Discordant motives in one centre meet.

1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. viii. 194 He places strange and discordant ideas in close apposition.

1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) i. 16 Testimony..in no case discordant with that of the Iliad.

1902 C. Abbe in Forest Infl. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (App. 1) 183 It is an even chance that any given rainfall is discordant from the average by plus or minus 6 per cent.

1944 A. J. Stose & G. W. Stose Geol. Hanover-York District Pennsylvania 43/1 The central band is part of a lens whose structure is discordant to the structure of the schist that surrounds it.

2001 C. Affron Lillian Gish (2002) ii. 25 There are discordant accounts of Lillian's first appearance as a professional actress.

b. Of two or more persons: that disagree with each other; dissenting; quarrelsome.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective]

un-i-someOE

unsaughtc1100

unsomec1275

discordant1474

unagreed1525

dissentious1562

odd1562

incompatible1567

disagreeing1583

differing1586

discordful1596

distanced1645

the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adjective]

variant1412

discordant1474

disagreeing1550

dissenting1550

dissident?c1550

disassentinga1572

differinga1586

disagreed1596

discorded1597

incompliable1625

unconsented1631

two1650

dissentient1651

dissentive1661

unassenting1836

divaricate1855

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 104 They ought to see well to that they be of one Acorde in good. by entente. by word. and by dede, so that they ben not discordant in no caas.

1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes H iij I..accuse..myne awne rebellious, discordant and graceles children.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 Induct. 19 The blunt monster, with vncounted heads, The still discordant wau'ring multitude.

1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops x. 273 Women and Rebels and Traytors and discordant Princes did much in raising him.

1733 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. I. 148 In the same Fate discordant Parties mix, And great Le Clerc here joins with Dr. Hicks.

1776 S. Johnson Let. 21 Dec. (1992) II. 365 When once a discordant family has felt the pleasure of peace, they will not willingly lose it.

1803 Marquess Wellesley Let. 20 June in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 24 He..united that discordant and turbulent race in the common cause.

1839 A. T. Thomson Mem. Duchess Marlborough I. viii. 245 Between these discordant sisters, one stay, one common subject of interest and source of affection, there still however was.

1912 Reform Advocate 14 Dec. 569/1 Bringing about..the unity of all the discordant brothers.

2008 S. Brampton Shoot Damn Dog (2009) xiv. 159 Growing up with discordant parents is linked with elevated levels of psychological distress.

a. Of music or musical notes: dissonant, lacking in harmony. More generally: (of sound): jarring or harsh to listen to; clashing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective]

hardOE

rudea1375

stern1390

rougha1400

discordanta1425

stoutc1440

hoarse1513

harsh1530

raughtish1567

rugged1567

dissonant1573

harshy1582

jarry1582

immelodious1601

cragged1605

raggeda1616

unmusicala1616

absonousa1620

unharmoniousa1634

inharmonical1683

unharmonic1694

inharmonious1715

craggy1774

pebbly1793

reedy1795

iron1807

dry1819

inharmonic1828

asperated1835

sawing1851

shrewd1876

coarse1879

callithumpian1886

dissonantal1946

ear-bending1946

sandpaper1953

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious

discordanta1425

jarring1552

dissonant1573

tuneless1595

discordous1597

immelodious1601

discord1606

absurd1617

unharmoniousa1634

scrannel1638

unmelodious1665

disharmonious1683

disharmonical1688

unharmonic1694

dissonous1715

inharmonious1715

disconsonant1731

anti-musical1824

ear-sore1859

tin-kettley1862

cacophonous1867

unnoted1867

callithumpian1886

tinny1904

crunchy1959

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4247 Discordaunt euer fro armonye And distoned from melodie.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Mvi^v The concordaunt and discordante distaunces of soundes, and tunes.

1607 Trag. Claudius Tiberius Nero sig. G Didst thou not see..How that discordant quire redoubled With their vntuned voyces?

1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. viii. 139 If God should permit this Siren alwaies to entertain us with her music, and should not by some discordant grating notes, interrupt our raptures.

1703 W. Congreve Hymn to Harmony vi. 5 War, with discordant Notes and jarring Noise, The Harmony of Peace destroys.

1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 152 Two sounds..that refuse incorporation or mixture, are said to be discordant.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xiii. 232 The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass..acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills.

1863 L. Stephen in Alpine Jrnl. Sept. 105 Some discordant shrieks from our party made the summer night hideous.

1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana xiii. 141 The discordant clanging of the gongs of electric trams fall hideously on the ear.

1967 Life 11 Aug. 30/3 He grumped..about the modernistic and discordant hymns they had sung.

2005 New Yorker 14 Feb. 234/1 The sound remained ugly and discordant, certainly not musical and harmonious.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts, esp. in discordant note.

ΚΠ

1571 R. Cavendish Image Nature & Grace iii. f. 22 Hys owne miserable condition..was founde the onely iarring, and discordant stringe from the sweete consent of that harmony.

1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph x. 302 Cardinall Bellarmine holdeth..that the Bread is transubstantiated into the Body of Christ... Will yee heare what the learned Fryer S.R. sayth to this discordant melodie?

a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) ii. 184 These discordant notes, these dark lines and stroaks in the Evangelical melody of the eternal Word,..become themselves most rich heightnings.

1734 M. Jones Let. Aug. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1760) 305 I found that his Help-mate had some discordant Notes in her Composition.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 787 No passion touches a discordant string, But all is harmony and love.

1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 357/2 Since our first acquaintance with each other no discordant note had ever marred the harmony of our intercourse.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 490 The discordant note had been struck, and its harmonics tingled in the brain.

1909 Western Chrisitan Advocate 14 Apr. 23/1 A nobler religion is taking the place of the old ones, which will reconcile..the Jew with the Gentile, and change the world's discordant music.

1925 Today's Housewife Feb. 6/1 In the harmonious beauty of earth and sky, the town struck a discordant note.

1974 B. M. Weissman H. Hoover & Famine Relief to Soviet Russia vii. 174 The only discordant note during this period of general harmony was a dispute about the disposition of surplus ARA supplies.

2009 Daily Tel. 22 June 18/1 I hate to sound a discordant note, but if you want to connect with the past, the day (or night) to celebrate Midsummer Eve is tomorrow.

3. Geology and Physical Geography.

a. Originally U.S. Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to the prevailing direction of adjacent or underlying structures, rather than parallel to it (cf. concordant adj. 4). Also with to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > relative direction

longitudinal1705

discordant1869

concordant1914

hetero-axial1926

1869 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1865–8 10 470 Along the eastern slope of the Big Horn and Wind River Mountains, the discordant relation of the two series of rocks is very apparent.

1898 C. Abbe Gen. Rep. Physiogr. Maryland 169 A short account of some discordant drainage near Philadelphia.

1926 G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrol. ii. 16 The magma may break across the bedding planes, and then forms a transgressive or discordant mass.

1949 G. H. Espenshade Strategic Minerals Investig. 1945 89 Most of the blebs and nodules are discordant to the bedding.

1990 E. R. K. Sahni in S. K. Chadha Himalayas, Environmental Probl. viii. 100 The serrate nature of the mountains with hanging valleys, flat floored troughs,..discordant drainage are the common land-forms in the region.

2012 D. G. Roberts & A. W. Bally Regional Geol. & Tectonics vi. 153 A third example..shows a thrust fault clearly discordant to a slate-belt architecture of tight folds.

b. spec. Of a coastline: transverse to the general direction of land features, and typically consisting of alternating headlands and bays.

ΚΠ

1912 A. J. Herbertson Handbk. Geogr. I. 52 In discordant or transverse coasts the coast-line lies across the axis of foldings or fractures.

1961 Geogr. Jrnl. 127 74 The discordant nature of the coastline, with prominent headlands and their associated reefs.

2001 J. Morton Role Physical Environment Anc. Greek Seafaring i. 26 Offshore rocks and islands are however most commonly associated with discordant coastlines, typified by their progressions of alternating headlands and bays.

4. Chiefly Genetics. Of a matched pair of subjects, esp. twins: not having the same trait or disease.

ΚΠ

1932 Q. Rev. Biol. 7 301/2 Generally speaking, the partners are concordant when their genotype is the same, as in identical twins, but when their genotype may be different, as in fraternal twins, the partners are more often discordant.

1968 Lancet 14 Sept. 626/1 It is the combination of rarity of concordant pairs and the normality of the sex-distribution of the observed discordant sets that is difficult to reconcile with a genetic hypothesis.

1992 New Scientist 28 Nov. (Suppl.) 6/4 Most of the discordant identical twins scored at opposite ends of the ‘Kinsey scale’ which ranks individuals on a seven-point scale ranging from strictly homosexual to exclusively heterosexual.

2009 P. H. Blaney & T. Millon Oxf. Textbk. Psychopathol. (ed. 2) 103/2 The study of MZ [= monozygotic] twins discordant for schizophrenia had provided a fertile ground for studying potential nonshared environmental influences.

B. n.

In plural. Discordant things, attributes, or propositions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > discordant things, attributes, etc.

discordants1532

oil and vinegar1629

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 75 By these acordaunces discordantes ben joyned.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Nij^v Contraries, are suche discordantes, as cannot be, at one, and the same tyme in one substance.

1648 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea i. 67 Thou Muse-borne: Who at Bridalls chant'st,..Who jarring seeds in Mystick knots dost chaine, Discordants knit, in concord dost maintaine.

1782 W. Jones tr. M. ibn Áli al-Rahbi Mahomedan Law Succession sig. D3 Take the entire number of discordants, And multiply them by the second term.

1864 Amer. Monthly Knickerbocker May 406/2 Those rare harmonious voices made still more painfully evident the discordants of the elemental warfare.

1910 Nature 17 Nov. 89/1 Schemes of laboratory classification [of soils] sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.

1997 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 264 1440/2 Vaccinating against a particular set of antigenic types will greatly reduce selection pressure against its discordants.

Derivatives

diˈscordantness n. rare discordant quality; an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Discordantness, disagreeableness.

1997 A. Saxena Anc. Greek & Indian Theatre i. 12 The sound would suffer from congestion and have no space to expand and would result in a discordantness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	discordant
释义	discordantadj.n. Brit. /dɪˈskɔːdnt/, U.S. /ˌdɪˈskɔrdənt/ Forms: Middle English descordant, Middle English–1500s discordaunt, Middle English–1500s discordaunte, Middle English–1500s dyscordaunt, Middle English– discordant, 1500s discordante, 1500s dyscordant, 1500s dyscordante, 1500s dyscordaunte; also Scottish pre-1700 descordant, pre-1700 discordaunt. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French discordant, discorder. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman descordaunt, discordaunt, Anglo-Norman and Middle French descordant, discordant (French discordant ) (of things) in disagreement, at variance (c1250 or earlier in Old French), (of people) quarrelsome (a1325 or earlier), use as adjective of present participle of descorder, discorder discord v.¹ Compare Catalan discordant (14th cent.), Spanish discordante (mid 13th cent. as †descordante ), Portuguese discordante (14th cent.), Italian discordante (a1292). Compare discord adj., discording adj.The specific use in music (sense A. 2a) is not dated in dictionaries of French. The Old French original of quot. a1425 at sense A. 2a uses Une hore dit lés et descors ‘At one time he (sc. Wicked Tongue, French Male-Bouche ) plays lais and descorts (a type of song)’, which may have influenced the choice of discordaunt in the Middle English version. In sense A. 3b after German diskordant (1896 in this sense: A. Supan Grundzüge der physischen Erdkunde (ed. 2) iv. 575). A. adj. 1. a. Incongruous, in disagreement; lacking harmony or agreement; conflicting; at variance. Sometimes followed by †fro, from, †till, to, †unto, with another person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] discordablea1393 discordanta1393 discordinga1398 incongruea1398 inconvenient1398 unaccording1398 discordc1415 disagreeablea1425 inconsutilec1450 unaccordanta1470 dissonant1490 disaccordanta1513 disagreeing?1526 incongruent1531 wide1531 unconsonant1535 dissonate1548 dissenting1550 dissident?c1550 unagreeable?1550 disconformc1554 discrepant1556 absonant1564 dissentany1586 disconsorted1589 disagreed1596 discordous1597 discordious1598 incorrespondent1599 dissentious1605 untunable1605 incongruous1611 unagreeing1611 unanswerable1611 eccentric1612 unconcurrent1613 disconsonant1614 dissentaneous1623 dissorting1631 uncorrespondent1631 discorrespondent1635 incoincident1636 unconcurring1639 eccentrical1640 unatonable1645 incompliant1647 pluranimous1650 disconformeda1658 inagreeable1657 inconsonant1658 disharmonious1659 inconcinn1660 discongruous1663 unharmonious1667 discoherent1675 uncongruous1709 inharmonious1749 immutual1768 unharmonized1803 unconsentaneous1818 inaccordant1822 uncorresponding1826 unharmonizing1851 non-concurring1866 discordful1867 disharmonic1887 non-concurrent1907 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2314 It is gretly descordant Unto the Scoles of Athene. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1037 No discordaunt þing y-fere. As þus to vsen termes of Phisyk. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 96 As discordant as day is vn-to nyught. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vii. 47 Be syk enuy he dois mony thingis yat ar discordaunt till his ordre. 1516 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. (1811) ii. xlvi. 29 After hym reygned .xx. Kynges successyuely..of the whiche..is no mencyon made eyther for their rudenesse..or discordaunt meanes, or maners. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) I. 20 He was far discordant fra him in maneris. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lxxv^v So longe as he is so dyscordaunte to hymselfe. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 140 The reasons and resolutions are, and must remain discordant. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 57 If discordant from it, the sentence of Condemnation [follows]. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. i. 75 His Wife at home..disdain'd to do any thing discordant to those Hopes. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 173 Discordant motives in one centre meet. 1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. viii. 194 He places strange and discordant ideas in close apposition. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) i. 16 Testimony..in no case discordant with that of the Iliad. 1902 C. Abbe in Forest Infl. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (App. 1) 183 It is an even chance that any given rainfall is discordant from the average by plus or minus 6 per cent. 1944 A. J. Stose & G. W. Stose Geol. Hanover-York District Pennsylvania 43/1 The central band is part of a lens whose structure is discordant to the structure of the schist that surrounds it. 2001 C. Affron Lillian Gish (2002) ii. 25 There are discordant accounts of Lillian's first appearance as a professional actress. b. Of two or more persons: that disagree with each other; dissenting; quarrelsome. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] un-i-someOE unsaughtc1100 unsomec1275 discordant1474 unagreed1525 dissentious1562 odd1562 incompatible1567 disagreeing1583 differing1586 discordful1596 distanced1645 the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adjective] variant1412 discordant1474 disagreeing1550 dissenting1550 dissident?c1550 disassentinga1572 differinga1586 disagreed1596 discorded1597 incompliable1625 unconsented1631 two1650 dissentient1651 dissentive1661 unassenting1836 divaricate1855 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 104 They ought to see well to that they be of one Acorde in good. by entente. by word. and by dede, so that they ben not discordant in no caas. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes H iij I..accuse..myne awne rebellious, discordant and graceles children. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 Induct. 19 The blunt monster, with vncounted heads, The still discordant wau'ring multitude. View more context for this quotation 1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops x. 273 Women and Rebels and Traytors and discordant Princes did much in raising him. 1733 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. I. 148 In the same Fate discordant Parties mix, And great Le Clerc here joins with Dr. Hicks. 1776 S. Johnson Let. 21 Dec. (1992) II. 365 When once a discordant family has felt the pleasure of peace, they will not willingly lose it. 1803 Marquess Wellesley Let. 20 June in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 24 He..united that discordant and turbulent race in the common cause. 1839 A. T. Thomson Mem. Duchess Marlborough I. viii. 245 Between these discordant sisters, one stay, one common subject of interest and source of affection, there still however was. 1912 Reform Advocate 14 Dec. 569/1 Bringing about..the unity of all the discordant brothers. 2008 S. Brampton Shoot Damn Dog (2009) xiv. 159 Growing up with discordant parents is linked with elevated levels of psychological distress. 2. a. Of music or musical notes: dissonant, lacking in harmony. More generally: (of sound): jarring or harsh to listen to; clashing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] hardOE rudea1375 stern1390 rougha1400 discordanta1425 stoutc1440 hoarse1513 harsh1530 raughtish1567 rugged1567 dissonant1573 harshy1582 jarry1582 immelodious1601 cragged1605 raggeda1616 unmusicala1616 absonousa1620 unharmoniousa1634 inharmonical1683 unharmonic1694 inharmonious1715 craggy1774 pebbly1793 reedy1795 iron1807 dry1819 inharmonic1828 asperated1835 sawing1851 shrewd1876 coarse1879 callithumpian1886 dissonantal1946 ear-bending1946 sandpaper1953 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious discordanta1425 jarring1552 dissonant1573 tuneless1595 discordous1597 immelodious1601 discord1606 absurd1617 unharmoniousa1634 scrannel1638 unmelodious1665 disharmonious1683 disharmonical1688 unharmonic1694 dissonous1715 inharmonious1715 disconsonant1731 anti-musical1824 ear-sore1859 tin-kettley1862 cacophonous1867 unnoted1867 callithumpian1886 tinny1904 crunchy1959 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4247 Discordaunt euer fro armonye And distoned from melodie. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Mvi^v The concordaunt and discordante distaunces of soundes, and tunes. 1607 Trag. Claudius Tiberius Nero sig. G Didst thou not see..How that discordant quire redoubled With their vntuned voyces? 1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. viii. 139 If God should permit this Siren alwaies to entertain us with her music, and should not by some discordant grating notes, interrupt our raptures. 1703 W. Congreve Hymn to Harmony vi. 5 War, with discordant Notes and jarring Noise, The Harmony of Peace destroys. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 152 Two sounds..that refuse incorporation or mixture, are said to be discordant. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. xiii. 232 The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass..acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills. 1863 L. Stephen in Alpine Jrnl. Sept. 105 Some discordant shrieks from our party made the summer night hideous. 1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana xiii. 141 The discordant clanging of the gongs of electric trams fall hideously on the ear. 1967 Life 11 Aug. 30/3 He grumped..about the modernistic and discordant hymns they had sung. 2005 New Yorker 14 Feb. 234/1 The sound remained ugly and discordant, certainly not musical and harmonious. b. figurative and in figurative contexts, esp. in discordant note. ΚΠ 1571 R. Cavendish Image Nature & Grace iii. f. 22 Hys owne miserable condition..was founde the onely iarring, and discordant stringe from the sweete consent of that harmony. 1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph x. 302 Cardinall Bellarmine holdeth..that the Bread is transubstantiated into the Body of Christ... Will yee heare what the learned Fryer S.R. sayth to this discordant melodie? a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) ii. 184 These discordant notes, these dark lines and stroaks in the Evangelical melody of the eternal Word,..become themselves most rich heightnings. 1734 M. Jones Let. Aug. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1760) 305 I found that his Help-mate had some discordant Notes in her Composition. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 787 No passion touches a discordant string, But all is harmony and love. 1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 357/2 Since our first acquaintance with each other no discordant note had ever marred the harmony of our intercourse. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 490 The discordant note had been struck, and its harmonics tingled in the brain. 1909 Western Chrisitan Advocate 14 Apr. 23/1 A nobler religion is taking the place of the old ones, which will reconcile..the Jew with the Gentile, and change the world's discordant music. 1925 Today's Housewife Feb. 6/1 In the harmonious beauty of earth and sky, the town struck a discordant note. 1974 B. M. Weissman H. Hoover & Famine Relief to Soviet Russia vii. 174 The only discordant note during this period of general harmony was a dispute about the disposition of surplus ARA supplies. 2009 Daily Tel. 22 June 18/1 I hate to sound a discordant note, but if you want to connect with the past, the day (or night) to celebrate Midsummer Eve is tomorrow. 3. Geology and Physical Geography. a. Originally U.S. Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to the prevailing direction of adjacent or underlying structures, rather than parallel to it (cf. concordant adj. 4). Also with to. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > relative direction longitudinal1705 discordant1869 concordant1914 hetero-axial1926 1869 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1865–8 10 470 Along the eastern slope of the Big Horn and Wind River Mountains, the discordant relation of the two series of rocks is very apparent. 1898 C. Abbe Gen. Rep. Physiogr. Maryland 169 A short account of some discordant drainage near Philadelphia. 1926 G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrol. ii. 16 The magma may break across the bedding planes, and then forms a transgressive or discordant mass. 1949 G. H. Espenshade Strategic Minerals Investig. 1945 89 Most of the blebs and nodules are discordant to the bedding. 1990 E. R. K. Sahni in S. K. Chadha Himalayas, Environmental Probl. viii. 100 The serrate nature of the mountains with hanging valleys, flat floored troughs,..discordant drainage are the common land-forms in the region. 2012 D. G. Roberts & A. W. Bally Regional Geol. & Tectonics vi. 153 A third example..shows a thrust fault clearly discordant to a slate-belt architecture of tight folds. b. spec. Of a coastline: transverse to the general direction of land features, and typically consisting of alternating headlands and bays. ΚΠ 1912 A. J. Herbertson Handbk. Geogr. I. 52 In discordant or transverse coasts the coast-line lies across the axis of foldings or fractures. 1961 Geogr. Jrnl. 127 74 The discordant nature of the coastline, with prominent headlands and their associated reefs. 2001 J. Morton Role Physical Environment Anc. Greek Seafaring i. 26 Offshore rocks and islands are however most commonly associated with discordant coastlines, typified by their progressions of alternating headlands and bays. 4. Chiefly Genetics. Of a matched pair of subjects, esp. twins: not having the same trait or disease. ΚΠ 1932 Q. Rev. Biol. 7 301/2 Generally speaking, the partners are concordant when their genotype is the same, as in identical twins, but when their genotype may be different, as in fraternal twins, the partners are more often discordant. 1968 Lancet 14 Sept. 626/1 It is the combination of rarity of concordant pairs and the normality of the sex-distribution of the observed discordant sets that is difficult to reconcile with a genetic hypothesis. 1992 New Scientist 28 Nov. (Suppl.) 6/4 Most of the discordant identical twins scored at opposite ends of the ‘Kinsey scale’ which ranks individuals on a seven-point scale ranging from strictly homosexual to exclusively heterosexual. 2009 P. H. Blaney & T. Millon Oxf. Textbk. Psychopathol. (ed. 2) 103/2 The study of MZ [= monozygotic] twins discordant for schizophrenia had provided a fertile ground for studying potential nonshared environmental influences. B. n. In plural. Discordant things, attributes, or propositions. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > discordant things, attributes, etc. discordants1532 oil and vinegar1629 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 75 By these acordaunces discordantes ben joyned. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Nij^v Contraries, are suche discordantes, as cannot be, at one, and the same tyme in one substance. 1648 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea i. 67 Thou Muse-borne: Who at Bridalls chant'st,..Who jarring seeds in Mystick knots dost chaine, Discordants knit, in concord dost maintaine. 1782 W. Jones tr. M. ibn Áli al-Rahbi Mahomedan Law Succession sig. D3 Take the entire number of discordants, And multiply them by the second term. 1864 Amer. Monthly Knickerbocker May 406/2 Those rare harmonious voices made still more painfully evident the discordants of the elemental warfare. 1910 Nature 17 Nov. 89/1 Schemes of laboratory classification [of soils] sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants. 1997 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 264 1440/2 Vaccinating against a particular set of antigenic types will greatly reduce selection pressure against its discordants. Derivatives diˈscordantness n. rare discordant quality; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Discordantness, disagreeableness. 1997 A. Saxena Anc. Greek & Indian Theatre i. 12 The sound would suffer from congestion and have no space to expand and would result in a discordantness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1393
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