| Main Entry: | discord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | noise |
Synonyms: |
cacophony, clamor, clinker, din, disharmony, dissonance, harshness, jangle, jarring, racket, sour note, tumult |
Antonyms: |
harmoniousness, harmony |
| Main Entry: | discord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
quarrelsome, agonistic, airborne, alienated, antipersonnel, antitank, armed, armed to the teeth, armigerous, astrive, at daggers drawn, at enmity, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at open war with, at variance, at variance with, at war, at war with, barratrous, battailous, bellicose, belligerent, bristling with arms, cankered, cantankerous, chivalrous, cold-hearted, combative, competitive, contending, contentious, cool, cornobbled, crabbed, cross, curst, disaffected, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disproportionate, disproportionated, divergent, embattled, estranged, exceptional, gladiatorial, hostile, ill-assorted, ill-sorted, ill-timed, improper, in arms, in bad odor with, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent with, inimical, internecine, intrusive, irreconcilable, irreducible, knock-down-drag-out, laquearian, manubiary, martial, militant, military, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, not on speaking terms, on bad terms, out of character, out of its element, out of joint, out of keeping, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, palestric, palestrical, pugilistic, pugnacious, repugnant to, rival, soldier-like, soldierly, stipendiarian, strategic, strategical, stratonic, sword in hand, tactical, tauromachian, together by the ears, top-secret, triphibian, unaccommodating, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncommensurable, unconformable, uncongenial, unconsonant, under arms, unfit, unfitting, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpacific, unpeaceful, unsuitable, unsuited, up in arms, up in arms against, warlike
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| Concept: | Discord. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; musical sounds |
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-nouns
discord, discordance; dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness., [Confused sounds] Babel; Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers.
-verbs
be discordant; jar (sound harshly).
-adjectives
discordant; dissonant, absonant; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable; unmelodious, immelodious; unharmonious, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh; jarring.
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Antonyms: |
melody |
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| Concept: | Discord. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
disagreement; discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling; screw loose., variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism (dissent); feud, faction., quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars., polemics; litigation; strife (contention); warfare; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war., broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance (disorder); commotion (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook Fair., subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question at issue (subject of inquiry); vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord., troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness; enmity; hate; Kilkenny cats; disputant; strange bedfellows.
-verbs
be discordant; disagree, come amiss [more]; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent; have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with., fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar (contend); have words with; fall foul of., split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against., get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row, kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
-adjectives
discordant; disagreeing; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient [more]; unreconciled, unpacified., quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging., at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled., torn, disunited.
-phrases
quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites [Vergil]; Mars gravior sub pace latet [Claudius].
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Antonyms: |
concord |
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| Main Entry: | antagonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | causing problem; opposition |
Synonyms: |
animosity, animus, antipathy, antithesis, clashing, competition, conflict, contention, contradistinction, contrariety, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, enmity, friction, hatred, hostility, incongruity, oppugnancy, rancor, resistance, rivalry |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change from friendly to unfriendly relationship |
Synonyms: |
alienation, break, difference, disaffection, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dissension, disunity, division, estrangement, falling-out, fissure, fracture, parting of the ways, quarrel, rent, rift, rupture, schism, secession, separation, severance, split, strife, variance, withdrawal |
| Notes: | breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things |
| Main Entry: | chaos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter confusion |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disarray, discord, disorder, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, holy mess, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mobocracy, muddle, pandemonium, rat's nest, snarl, topsy-turviness, tumult, turmoil, unruliness |
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calm, harmony, normality, order, organization, quiet, system |
| Main Entry: | clamor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud cry; commotion |
Synonyms: |
agitation, babel, blare, brouhaha*, bustle, buzz, clinker, complaint, convulsion, din, discord, exclamation, ferment, hassle, hoo-ha, hubba-hubba, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurly-burly, lament, noise, outcry, pandemonium, protesting, racket, remonstrance, row, ruckus, shout, shouting, to-do, tumult, turmoil, upheaval, uproar, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | clash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement or fight, often brief |
Synonyms: |
affray, argument, battle, brawl, break, broil, brush, bump, collision, concussion, conflict, confrontation, crash, difference of opinion, discord, discordance, disharmony, dispute, donnybrook, embroilment, encounter, engagement, fracas, fray, have a go at each other, impact, jam, jar, jolt, jump, melee, misunderstanding, mix up, opposition, rift, riot, row, rumpus, run-in, rupture, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shock, showdown, skirmish, smash, wallop |
| Main Entry: | clash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do not match |
Synonyms: |
be dissimilar, conflict, contrast, differ, disaccord, discord, disharmonize, mismatch, not go with |
Antonyms: |
match |