- [usually before noun] (formal)
not in agreement; combining with other things in a way that is strange or unpleasant 不一致的;不协调的;不和的 discordant views 相互冲突的观点 The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture. 计算机的功能现代性在18世纪优雅的家具中引起了不和谐的音符。
(of sounds )声音 not sounding pleasant together opposite harmonious不和谐的
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French descordant, present participle of descorder, from Latin discordare, from discors ‘discordant’, from dis- (expressing negation, reversal) + cor, cord- ‘heart’.