discrepant

[dih-skrep-uhnt]

adjective

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

   discrepant accounts.

Other Word Forms

• discrepantly adverb
• self-discrepant adjective
• self-discrepantly 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

These discrepant views—these concepts of penguins—are the kind of information researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, elicited from participants in a study that was published last month.

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To help him analyze the precious score’s two discrepant versions, Bern enlists the wisecracking, decoding mastermind Eboni Washington, who digitizes and cross-analyzes all the musical data.

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And then, even more serious, is that the result is not only discrepant with theoretical calculations but also with previous experimental measurements.

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Even after the annex was shut down in June 2019 and the Patrol hired a company to decontaminate the main toxicology lab, 11 more blood samples returned “discrepant results” through April 2021, the ruling says.

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The lab’s accreditation agency and the Forensic Investigation Council, an independent agency that oversees Washington’s forensic lab operations and policies, also have been kept apprised of discrepant results, Loftis added.

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