discordant🔊

Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible. +

Of people: disagreeing with each other; dissenting, quarrelsome.

(also figurative) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious. +

(geology, physical geography, originally US) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.

Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands.

(chiefly genetics) Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.

(healthcare) Of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative. +

(mathematics, statistics) Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).

A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.