Strive vs Discord - What's the difference?
strive | discord |
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
* Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
* Burke
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
* Francis Bacon
(archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between strive and discord
is that strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently while discord is (archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.As nouns the difference between strive and discord
is that strive is (obsolete) an effort; a striving while discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony.strive
English
Verb
- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".External links
* *discord
English
Noun
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
Verb
(en verb)- The one discording with the other.