discrepant

From Latin discrepāns, present participle of discrepō (“to differ in sound, differ, disagree”), from dis- (“apart”) + crepō (“to make a noise, crackle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskɹɪpənt/, /dɪˈskɹɛpənt/

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discrepant (comparative more discrepant, superlative most discrepant) (formal)

1. Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 34:

     But the term 'godlike,' […] becomes exceedingly vague, for many gods have flourished in religious history, and their attributes have been discrepant enough.

• inconsistent
• incompatible
• at variance

• discrepancy

discrepant (plural discrepants)

1. (archaic) A dissident.
   • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:

     If you persecute heretics or discrepants, they unite themselves as to a common defence […]

• “discrepant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “discrepant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “discrepant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• predicants

Learned borrowing from Latin discrepantem, present active participle of discrepō (“to differ in sound, differ, disagree”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [dis.kɾəˈpan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [dis.kɾəˈpant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [dis.kɾeˈpant]

discrepant m or f (masculine and feminine plural discrepants)

1. differing, divergent

• discrepància
• discrepar

• “discrepant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

discrepant

1. gerund of discrepar

discrepant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of discrepō

Borrowed from Italian discrepante.

discrepant m or n (feminine singular discrepantă, masculine plural discrepanți, feminine and neuter plural discrepante)

1. discrepant, diverging