- [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. 在优雅的18世纪家具中，电脑的现代功能给人一种不和谐的感觉。
(of sounds 声音 not sounding pleasant together 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’.