at variance

1. 1.

   not in accord

   “desires at variance with his duty”

   “widely discrepant statements”

   Synonymsdiscrepantdissonant

   Similardiscordant

Questions about at variance

What does at variance mean?

at variance means "not in accord".

What is another word for at variance?

Close synonyms include discrepant, dissonant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at variance a common word?

at variance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.