Disconcerting vs Discordant - What's the difference?
disconcerting | discordant |
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
not in harmony or accord
harsh or dissonant sounding
(public health) serodiscordant
(geology) of a differing type of rock cutting across a formation
As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and discordant
is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while discordant is not in harmony or accord.disconcerting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
- "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."
discordant
English
Alternative forms
* discordaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding