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1. dis·cord

   /ˈdiˌskôrd/

   noun

   • 1. disagreement between people: "a prosperous family who showed no signs of discord" Similar strife, conflict, friction, hostility, disagreement, ... morelack of agreement, dissension, dispute, difference of opinion, discordance, disunity, division, incompatibility, variance, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, opposition, bad feeling, ill feeling, bad blood, argument, quarreling, squabbling, bickering, wrangling, feuding, contention, clashing, falling-out, war, vendetta, archaic:jar, rare:disaccordOpposite agreement, accord, harmony
   • ▪ lack of agreement or harmony between things: "the discord between indigenous and Western cultures"
   • 2. lack of harmony between notes sounding together: "the music faded in discord" Similar dissonance, discordance, lack of harmony, disharmony, cacophony, ... morejarring, janglingOpposite harmony
   • ▪ a chord which (in conventional harmonic terms) is regarded as unpleasing or requiring resolution by another.
   • ▪ any interval except unison, an octave, a perfect fifth or fourth, a major or minor third and sixth, or their octaves.
   • ▪ a single note dissonant with another.

   verb

   • 1. (of people) disagree: archaic "we discorded commonly on two points"
   • ▪ (of things) be different or in disharmony: archaic "the party's views were apt to discord with those of the leading members of the administration"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French descord (noun), descorder (verb), from Latin discordare, from discors ‘discordant’, from dis- (expressing negation, reversal) + cor, cord- ‘heart’.

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