# discordant

> English word · Adjective · IPA /dɪsˈkɔːdn̩t/ · frequency rank #47,019

## Definitions
1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
2. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
3. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
4. Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
5. Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
6. Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
7. Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
8. Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).

## Etymology
From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’).

## Common misspellings (16)
`ddiscordant`, `dicsordant`, `disccordant`, `discodrant`, `discoradnt`, `discordannt`, `discordantt`, `discordatn`, `discorddant`, `discordnat`, `discorrdant`, `discrodant`, `disocrdant`, `disscordant`, `dsicordant`, `idscordant`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/discordant