discord

1. 1.

   lack of agreement or harmony

   Synonymsstrife

   Broaderdisorder
2. 2.

   disagreement among those expected to cooperate

   Synonymsdissension

   Broaderdisagreement

   Narrowerconfrontationdivision
3. 3.

   a harsh mixture of sounds

   Synonymsdiscordance

   Broaderdissonance
4. 4.

   strife resulting from a lack of agreement

   Synonymsdiscordance

   Broaderstrife

1. 1.

   be different from one another

   Synonymsdisagreedisaccord

   Broaderbe

Other forms of discord

plural

discords·

past tense

discorded·

present participle

discording·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about discord

What does discord mean?

discord means "lack of agreement or harmony". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discord?

discord has 2 syllables: dis-cord. The stress falls on "dis". In IPA it is /ˈdɪskɔɹd/.

What is another word for discord?

Close synonyms include strife, dissension, discordance, discordance, disagree. 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 discord a common word?

discord is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.