at variance meaning

Adjective: at variance

1. Not in accord
   "desires at variance with his duty"
   - discrepant, dissonant

See also: discordant

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1. we cannot suit; we are ever at variance.
2. it is unnatural for brothers to be at variance.
3. his conduct is at variance with his words.
4. the political situation there was equally at variance with our preconceptions.
5. this, too, was something which was completely at variance with the known laws of nature.