| 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: | dissension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conflict of opinion |
Synonyms: |
altercation, argument, bad vibes, bickering, clinker, contention, controversy, difference, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dispute, dissent, dissidence, disunity, faction, factionalism, flak, friction, fuss, quarrel, scene, sour note, static, strife, trouble, variance, wrangle |
Antonyms: |
agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, confirmation, peace, ratification |
| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement, disapproval |
Synonyms: |
bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, endorsement, ratification, sanction |
| Main Entry: | dissidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference of opinion |
Synonyms: |
bad vibes, contention, disaccord, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, dispeace, dispute, dissension, dissent, feud, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, rupture, schism, sour note, strife, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | dissonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different, conflicting |
Synonyms: |
anomalous, at variance, differing, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, dissentient, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, irreconcilable, irregular, sour note, unmixable |
Antonyms: |
coinciding, compatible, complementary, consonant, similar |
| Main Entry: | friction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement |
Synonyms: |
animosity, antagonism, bad blood, bad feeling, bickering, bone to pick, conflict, counteraction, discontent, discord, disharmony, dispute, dissension, faction, factionalism, flak, hassle, hatred, hostility, impedance, incompatibility, interference, opposition, quarrel, resentment, resistance, rivalry, row*, ruckus*, rumpus, set-to, sour note, strife, trouble, wrangling |
Antonyms: |
agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | misunderstanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument, fight |
Synonyms: |
bad vibes, blowup, breach, break, clash, conflict, crossed wires, debate, difference, difficulty, disagreement, discord, dissension, falling-out, feud, fuss, quarrel, rift, row, run-in, rupture, set-to, sour note, spat, squabble, tiff, variance, words |
Antonyms: |
agreement, concord, concurrence, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | off-key |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not sounding right |
Synonyms: |
abnormal, anomalous, clinker, deviant, discordant, dissonant, divergent, flat, inharmonious, irregular, jarring, not harmonious, off-pitch, off-tone, out of keeping, out of pitch, out of tune, out of tune, sour, sour note, sour*, unmusical, unnatural, untuned |
Antonyms: |
concordant, harmonious, on-key |
| Main Entry: | discord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
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: | Friction. |
| Category: | 1. Solid Matter |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
friction, attrition; rubbing; confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness.
-verbs
rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind (reduce to powder)., set one's teeth on edge; rosin.
-adjectives
anatriptic; attrite.
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