The meaning of Discord

noun

Active hostility or opposition.

Usage examples:

The antagonism between them

noun

Strong dislike or opposition, or a particular example of it

Usage examples:

[ u ] the attorney accused the witness of antagonism toward his client.

noun

A deep-seated feeling of aversion.

Usage examples:

His fundamental antipathy to capitalism

noun

Strong dislike or opposition

Usage examples:

His letters show a deep and intense antipathy toward workers.

noun

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

Usage examples:

A cacophony of deafening alarm bells

noun

An unpleasant mixture of loud sounds

Usage examples:

What a cacophony!, as we entered the farmyard we were met with a cacophony of animal sounds.

noun

A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

Usage examples:

The eternal conflict between the sexes

verb

Be incompatible or at variance; clash.

Usage examples:

Parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict

noun

An active disagreement, as between opposing opinions or needs

Usage examples:

[ c ] conflicts between parents and children become more frequent when the children become teenager…

noun

Lack of consensus or approval.

Usage examples:

There was some disagreement about the details

noun

A situation in which people have different opinions, or an inability to agree

Usage examples:

[ c ] the candidates had few disagreements about the major issues.

noun

Lack of agreement or consistency.

Usage examples:

The discordance between sales and evidence should be a focus

noun

An unpleasant sound or combination of sounds

Usage examples:

The third movement failed to impress me and came close to discordance in my ears., "there is no dis…

noun

Lack of harmony or agreement.

Usage examples:

We will become evermore a nation of social disharmony

noun

The situation in which there is disagreement and unpleasant feeling between people

Usage examples:

Marital disharmony

noun

A disagreement or argument.

Usage examples:

A territorial dispute between the two countries

verb

Argue about (something).

Usage examples:

The point has been much disputed

noun

An argument or disagreement

Usage examples:

[ c ] management and the union are trying to resolve the dispute over working conditions., her skil…

noun

Disagreement that leads to discord.

Usage examples:

These issues caused bitter dissension in the party

noun

Strong disagreement, esp. within an organization

Usage examples:

There was a good deal of dissension within women’s rights organizations about setting political goa…

noun

Lack of harmony among musical notes.

Usage examples:

An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles

noun

A combination of sounds or musical notes that are not pleasant when heard together

Usage examples:

The jarring dissonance of klein's musical score

noun

Disagreement and conflict within a group.

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The disunity among opposition parties

noun

A situation in which people disagree so much that they can no longer work together effectively

Usage examples:

It was all part of our enemies' plans to sow disunity in our society., all that talk of disunity an…

noun

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

Usage examples:

The division of the land into small fields

noun

The separation of something into parts or groups, or one of the parts or groups that has been separated

Usage examples:

[ u ] the division of responsibilities among the officers of the company was spelled out in detail.…

noun

One of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into

Usage examples:

The year-on-year profit figure for the division fell by 36%., investment/services/international div…

noun

A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility.

Usage examples:

Decades of enmity between the two countries

noun

Strong dislike or hate

noun

The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

Usage examples:

A lubrication system which reduces friction

noun

The force that works against an object as it slides along the surface of another object or moves through a liquid or gas

Usage examples:

A gasoline engine loses over 70 percent of its energy to friction and heat., there’s less friction …

noun

Hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition.

Usage examples:

Their hostility to all outsiders

noun

An occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something

Usage examples:

They showed open (= obvious) hostility to/towards their new neighbours., hostilities began/broke ou…

noun

The condition of two things being so different in nature as to be incapable of coexisting.

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Genetic incompatibility

noun

The fact that two things are so different that they cannot both happen, be correct, or be accepted at the same time

Usage examples:

Incompatibility between sth (and sth) in design, there seems to be an inherent incompatibility betw…

verb

Make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one.

Usage examples:

A bell jangled loudly

noun

A ringing metallic sound.

Usage examples:

The shrill jangle of the door bell

noun

The noise of metal hitting metal

Usage examples:

The jangling of sleigh bells, a loud jangling noise

adjective

Incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing.

Usage examples:

The telephone struck a jarring note in those renaissance surroundings

verb

Send a painful or damaging shock through (something, especially a part of the body).

Usage examples:

He jarred the knee in training

adjective

Different from surrounding or usual things, or disagreeing with others, and therefore surprising or upsetting

Usage examples:

A jarring succession of images, the band took a new, if jarring, approach to this music.

preposition

Short for of, used to represent a pronunciation.

Usage examples:

A cup o' coffee

abbreviation

Ortho-.

Usage examples:

O -xylene

suffix

Forming chiefly informal or slang variants or derivatives such as beano, wino.

noun

Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict.

Usage examples:

Strife within the community

noun

Angry disagreement or violent actions

Usage examples:

Civil/ethnic/political strife, he led the union through several years of labor strife.

noun

Disagreements between groups of people

Usage examples:

Industrial/financial/political strife, boardroom/internal strife

noun

The fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent.

Usage examples:

Her light tone was at variance with her sudden trembling