Synonyms for discordant
- adjective
Most common
dissonant cacophonous tuneless incongruous incongruent non-concordant
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Dissonant — not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible. Of sounds, harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of…
dissonant, cacophonous, tuneless, incongruous, contradictory, rough, jarring, conflicting, noisy, different, raucous, inconsistent, irreconcilable, harsh, heterogeneous, incompatible, opposite, contrary, inharmonious, unharmonious, grating, repugnant
2. Incongruent — not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible
incongruent, discrepant formal, non-concordant
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
- adj. 2
Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible. Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.
Related words
- Word family
- discordantly discord discordance
Choose the right word
Discordant is applied to all things that jar in association like musical notes that are not in accord; inharmonious has the same original sense, but is a milder term.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- incongruous He has an incongruous sounding name which is hard to remember.
- dissonant Contemporary classical music is often very dissonant.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| discordant | steady | |
| incongruous | steady | |
| dissonant | rising | |
| cacophonous | rising | |
| tuneless | rising | |
| factious | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- rough1, harsh1, noisy2
- 7 letters
- grating2, jarring2, raucous2
- 8 letters
- opposite3, contrary3, tuneless, factious
- 9 letters
- different3, repugnant3, dissonant3
- 10 letters
- discrepant
- 11 letters
- conflicting3, incongruous4, incongruent, cacophonous
- 12 letters
- inconsistent4, incompatible5, inharmonious, unharmonious
- 13 letters
- contradictory5, heterogeneous5
- 14 letters
- irreconcilable6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (noisy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- discordant
- Italiano
- discordante