The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discordant \Dis*cord"ant\, a. [OE. discordant, descordaunt, OF. descordant, discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. See Discord, n.]
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Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
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[See Discord, n.,
2. ] (Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart.
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(Geol.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Syn: Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; repugnant; opposite; contrary; inconsistent; dissonant; harsh; jarring; irreconcilable. -- Dis*cord"ant*ly, adv. -- Dis*cord"ant*ness, n. [R.]
Wiktionary
adv. In a discordant manner.
WordNet
adv. in a discordant manner; "the piece ended discordantly" [syn: unharmoniously]
Usage examples of "discordantly".
The old local orthodoxies of behaviour, of precedence, the old accepted amusements and employments, the old ritual of conduct in the important small things of the daily life and the old ritual of thought in the things that make discussion, are smashed up and scattered and mixed discordantly together, one use with another, and no world-wide culture of toleration, no courteous admission of differences, no wider understanding has yet replaced them.
Jeth Tewdol caress a string of his lute and the harp Cerin played rang discordantly.
I said looking at those particular cameos, remembering discordantly but quite definitely that a ghost can wear a cameo.
These, resonating discordantly as the wearer hummed, fooled the detector.
Jarlaxle added, and the obvious lie twanged discordantly in Triel's mind.