Definitions for discrepant

discrepant dis·crep·ant

Spelling: [dih-skrep-uh nt]
IPA: /dɪˈskrɛp ənt/

Discrepant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1587 anagrams from letters in discrepant (acdeinprst).

Definitions for discrepant

adjective

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

Origin of discrepant

1400-50; late Middle English Latin discrepant- (stem of discrepāns), present participle of discrepāre to sound discordant, equivalent to dis- dis-1 + crepār

Examples for discrepant

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

There can be no true harmony among friends when their sensibilities are shocked, or their views are discrepant.

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

discrepant facta cum dictis—The facts don't agree with the statements.

We are thus frequently enabled to arrive at the truth by a comparison of the discrepant traditions.

To object to the presence of discrepant accounts is to object to mythology for being mythological.

There is no real sign of discrepant authorship, therefore, but rather a new indication of unity.

Doubtless right-spirited men are praying now at a thousand discrepant altars.

May I not say that I seem to detect traces of an hypothesis in the making, and of discrepant theories?

Two discrepant accounts are given of Saul's rejection from the kingdom, I Sam.

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