discord

Roget-categorie 713

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
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#713. Discord

zelfstandig naamwoord

disagreement etc. 24 — discord, disaccord^†, dissidence, dissonance — jar, clash, shock — jarring, jostling etc. v. — screw loose.
variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie [Fr.] — division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach — schism etc. (dissent) 489 — feud, faction.
quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie^†, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow^†, words, high words — wrangling etc. v. — jangle, brabble^†, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap — family jars.
polemics — litigation — strife etc. (contention) 720 — warfare etc. 722 — outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.
broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation^† — embroilment, embranglement^†, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work [Fr.], scrimmage, rumpus — breeze, squall — riot, disturbance etc. (disorder) 59 — commotion etc. (agitation) 315 — bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.
subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point — bone of contention, bone to pick — apple of discord, casus belli [Lat.] — question at issue etc. (subject of inquiry) 461 — vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], brand of discord.
troublous times^† — cat-and-dog life — contentiousness etc. adj. — enmity etc. 889 — hate etc. 898 — Kilkenny cats — disputant etc. 710 — strange bedfellows.

werkwoord

be discordant etc. adj. — disagree, come amiss etc. 24 — clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another — live like cat and dog — differ — dissent etc. 489 — have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with.
fall out, quarrel, dispute — litigate — controvert etc. (deny) 536 — squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle^†, bicker, nag — spar etc. (contend) 720 — have words etc. n.. 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 etc. n. — 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.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

discordant — disagreeing etc. v. — out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient etc. 489 — unreconciled, unpacified — contentious etc. 720.
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.

uitdrukking

quot homines tot sententiae [Lat.] [Terence]; no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites [Lat.] [Vergil]; Mars gravior sub pace latet [Lat.] [Claudius].

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