- 1[usually before noun] (formal) not in agreement; combining with other things in a way that is strange or unpleasant discordant views The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
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- 2(of sounds) not sounding pleasant together opposite harmonious
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