Thesaurus: discord

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1. v. i. Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
2. v. i. 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.
3. n. To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
4. n. lack of agreement or harmony
5. n. disagreement among those expected to cooperate
6. n. a harsh mixture of sounds
7. n. strife resulting from a lack of agreement
8. v. be different from one another
9. 1. Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire. Burke. 2. (Mus.) 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 but a harshness of divers sounds mBacon. Apple of discord. See under Apple. Syn. -- Variance; difference; opposition; contrariety; clashing; dissension; contention; strife; disagreement; dissonance. To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. [Obs.] The one discording with the other. Bacon.
10. Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly ordisagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations whichthey produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demandingresolution into a concord.For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds mBacon.Apple of discord. See under Apple.
11. n:100 n. lack of agreement or harmony n. disagreement among those expected to cooperate n. strife resulting from a lack of agreement