discrepant

[ dih-skrep-uhnt ]

adjective

1. (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent:

   discrepant accounts.

Other Words From

• dis·crepant·ly adverb
• self-dis·crepant adjective
• self-dis·crepant·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of discrepant¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin discrepant- (stem of discrepāns ), present participle of discrepāre to sound discordant, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + crepāre to crack, creak; -ant

Example Sentences

The attempt to harmonize different ideas means that in themselves they are discrepant.

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These two tendencies, apparently so discrepant, are far from conflicting; they advance together, and mutually support each other.

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A clue is often found to the meaning in examining startlingly discrepant statements connected with the same leading word.

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Horum posteri a circumjacente Celticæ originis populo lingua etiam nunc omnino discrepant.

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Of Bothwell, the third protagonist in the tragedy of Three, we have no portrait, and but discrepant descriptions.

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