discord
DIS-kordnounMeaning disagreement; a lack of harmony
Memory hook DIS-CHORD: notes that clash. Kai strums one song on the guitar while Lila plays a different one on the violin, and the dog howls. Sounds that clash, like people who clash, are in discord.
A quarrel over the last pancake brought discord to the breakfast table.
In context The band sounded wonderful in rehearsal, but discord among its members, who argued over every song, broke it up before its first concert.
Similar conflict, strife, friction, disharmony
Opposite harmony, accord, agreement
From Latin discordia, from discors, “disagreeing”: dis (apart) + cor (heart).