Need another word that means the same as “discord”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “discord” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Discord” are: discordance, strife, dissension, conflict, friction, hostility, dissonance, lack of harmony, disharmony, cacophony, disaccord, disagree
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “discord” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| cacophony | A loud harsh or strident noise. A cacophony of deafening alarm bells. |
| conflict | A disagreement or argument about something important. This form of conflict is essential to Mann s writing. |
| discordance | A harsh mixture of sounds. Fast songs can go through slow phases and minor keys and discordance may be employed. |
| disharmony | Lack of harmony or agreement. We will become evermore a nation of social disharmony. |
| dissension | Disagreement that leads to discord. These issues caused bitter dissension in the party. |
| dissonance | Disagreeable sounds. The party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates. |
| friction | The action of one surface or object rubbing against another. The friction of braking. |
| hostility | A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition. Their hostility to all outsiders. |
| lack of harmony | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. |
| strife | Trouble or difficulty of any kind. Decades of civil strife. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “discord” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| disaccord | Disagree; be at variance. This disaccords with the precise date. |
| disagree | Have or express a different opinion. The sea crossing disagreed with her. |
| argument | An independent variable associated with a function or proposition and determining its value For example in the expression y F x x the arguments of the function F are x and x and the value is y. The editor added the argument to the poem. |
| cacophony | A loud harsh or strident noise. A cacophony of deafening alarm bells. |
| conflict | Be in conflict. Regional conflicts. |
| controversy | A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. The announcement ended a protracted controversy. |
| cracked | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. You must think my family are cracked. |
| din | Make (someone) learn or remember an idea by constant repetition. The sound dinned irritatingly into Marian s head. |
| disagree | Have or express a different opinion. The sea crossing disagreed with her. |
| disagreement | Lack of consensus or approval. There was some disagreement about the details. |
| discomfit | Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed. He was not noticeably discomfited by her tone. |
| disconcert | Cause to feel embarrassment. The abrupt change of subject disconcerted her. |
| discordant | Disagreeing or incongruous. The operative principle of democracy is a balance of discordant qualities. |
| discrepancy | An illogical or surprising lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts. There s a discrepancy between your account and his. |
| discrepant | Not in accord. Widely discrepant statements. |
| dispute | Compete for; strive to win. The point has been much disputed. |
| dissension | Disagreement that leads to discord. These issues caused bitter dissension in the party. |
| dissonance | A conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters. An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles. |
| dissonant | Lacking harmony. Irregular dissonant chords. |
| divergence | The act of moving away in different direction from a common point. An angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines. |
| divisive | Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion. The highly divisive issue of abortion. |
| factious | Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion. A factious country. |
| fight | The act of fighting any contest or struggle. Britain might have given up her fight against Germany. |
| incompatible | Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other’s effect. All four prototype camcorders used special tapes and were incompatible with each other. |
| inconsistency | The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour. |
| inharmonious | Not in harmony. An inharmonious or incongruous mixture of architectural styles. |
| quarrel | An arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges. They had a quarrel. |
| racket | Hit a ball with a racket. A squash racket. |
| squabble | A quarrel about petty points. Family squabbles. |
| strife | Trouble or difficulty of any kind. Strife within the community. |
| struggle | Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight. Getting through the crowd was a real struggle. |
| wrestle | A wrestling bout or contest. For over a year David wrestled with a guilty conscience. |
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