| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | noise |
| Synonyms: | cacophony, clamor, clinker, din, disharmony, dissonance, harshness, jangle, jarring, racket, sour note, tumult |
| Antonyms: | harmoniousness, harmony |
| Concept: | Discord. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; musical sounds |
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-nouns
discord, discordance; dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness., [Confused sounds] Babel; Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers.
-verbs
be discordant; jar (sound harshly).
-adjectives
discordant; dissonant, absonant; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable; unmelodious, immelodious; unharmonious, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh; jarring.
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| Antonyms: | melody |
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| Concept: | Discord. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
disagreement; discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling; screw loose., variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism (dissent); feud, faction., quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars., polemics; litigation; strife (contention); warfare; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war., broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance (disorder); commotion (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook Fair., subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question at issue (subject of inquiry); vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord., troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness; enmity; hate; Kilkenny cats; disputant; strange bedfellows.
-verbs
be discordant; disagree, come amiss [more]; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent; have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with., fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar (contend); have words with; fall foul of., split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against., get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row, kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
-adjectives
discordant; disagreeing; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient [more]; unreconciled, unpacified., quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging., at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled., torn, disunited.
-phrases
quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites [Vergil]; Mars gravior sub pace latet [Claudius].
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| Antonyms: | concord |
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| Main Entry: | antagonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | causing problem; opposition |
| Synonyms: | animosity, animus, antipathy, antithesis, clashing, competition, conflict, contention, contradistinction, contrariety, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, enmity, friction, hatred, hostility, incongruity, oppugnancy, rancor, resistance, rivalry |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change from friendly to unfriendly relationship |
| Synonyms: | alienation, break, difference, disaffection, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dissension, disunity, division, estrangement, falling-out, fissure, fracture, parting of the ways, quarrel, rent, rift, rupture, schism, secession, separation, severance, split, strife, variance, withdrawal |
| Notes: | breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things |
| Main Entry: | chaos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter confusion |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disarray, discord, disorder, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, holy mess, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mobocracy, muddle, pandemonium, rat's nest, snarl, topsy-turviness, tumult, turmoil, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, normality, order, organization, quiet, system |
| Main Entry: | clamor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud cry; commotion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, babel, blare, brouhaha*, bustle, buzz, clinker, complaint, convulsion, din, discord, exclamation, ferment, hassle, hoo-ha, hubba-hubba, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurly-burly, lament, noise, outcry, pandemonium, protesting, racket, remonstrance, row, ruckus, shout, shouting, to-do, tumult, turmoil, upheaval, uproar, vociferation |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | clash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement or fight, often brief |
| Synonyms: | affray, argument, battle, brawl, break, broil, brush, bump, collision, concussion, conflict, confrontation, crash, difference of opinion, discord, discordance, disharmony, dispute, donnybrook, embroilment, encounter, engagement, fracas, fray, have a go at each other, impact, jam, jar, jolt, jump, melee, misunderstanding, mix up, opposition, rift, riot, row, rumpus, run-in, rupture, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shock, showdown, skirmish, smash, wallop |
| Main Entry: | clash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do not match |
| Synonyms: | be dissimilar, conflict, contrast, differ, disaccord, discord, disharmonize, mismatch, not go with |
| Antonyms: | match |