discord

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Want of agreement

Nouns

1. discord, discordance, disaccord, dissidence, disagreement, dissonance; friction, incompatibility; variance, difference, dissension, dissent; misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds; division, rupture, disrupture, disorder, house divided against itself; breach.

2. (verbal discord) quarrel, falling-out, dispute, debate, argument, discussion, controversy, squabble, tiff, altercation, hassle, [high] words, wrangling, bicker, flap, spat, jangle, cross questions and crooked answers, war of words; polemics (see reasoning).

3. (physical discord) strife, warfare, open rupture, declaration of war; jar[ring], clash, imbroglio, crossfire, etc. (see contention).

4. (subject of dispute) ground of quarrel, battleground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone or crow to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question at issue, vexed question. Informal, hot potato. See inquiry.

5. (sonic discord) dissonance, cacophony, caterwauling; false or sour note; harshness, stridency, din; babel. Informal, clinker, clam. See music.

Verbs

1. be discordant, disagree; clash, jar, jangle; misunderstand, differ, dissent; have a bone to pick with.

2. fall out, quarrel, dispute, litigate, squabble, wrangle, bicker, have words (with), have it out, set to, fall foul of; break, part company (with); declare war; try conclusions, join an issue, pick a quarrel, sow dissension; embroil, widen the breach; set at odds, pit against.

Adjectives

1. discordant; disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms; dissenting, unreconciled, unpacified; quarrelsome, unpacific; controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging; at odds, at loggerheads, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, up in arms, in hot water, embroiled; torn, disunited, divisive, disruptive.

2. discordant, dissonant, out of tune, off-key; tuneless, unmusical, unmelodious, unharmonious, harsh, cacophonous.

Antonyms, see agreement.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Conflict]

Syn. strife, contention, dissension, disunity, division, disagreement, dispute, friction, animosity; see also disagreement 1 .

2. [Noise]

Syn. din, racket, dissonance, disharmony; see noise 2 .

Syn.- discord denotes disagreement or lack of concord and may imply quarreling between persons, clashing qualities in things, dissonance in sound, etc.; strife stresses the struggle to win in a conflict or disagreement; contention suggests verbal strife as expressed in argument, controversy, dispute, etc.; dissension implies difference of opinion, usually suggesting contention between opposing groups in a body

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n.

[DIS kord]

disagreement; conflict.

The new proposal was met with discord.

SYN.: disagreement, dissension, conflict, variance, disunity, disharmony, contention, clashing, difference of opinion, dissonance. ''A sleepless hag who never dies.''—John Wolcott.

ANT.: accord, harmony, agreement

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun A state of disagreement and disharmony: clash, conflict, confrontation, contention, difference, difficulty, disaccord, discordance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissonance, faction, friction, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare. See CONFLICT. II verb 1. To fail to be in accord: clash, conflict, contradict, disaccord, jar. Idiom: go (or run) counter to. See AGREE. 2. To be of different opinion: differ, disaccord, disagree, dissent, vary. Idiom: join (or take) issue. See AGREE.