Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
cacophonous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Harsh-sounding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
discordant - adjective
unmusical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an unpleasant sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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Who wants to be in a crowded, cacophonic room, when one's own soul-centering salon beckons?
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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“Murderers,” a lone voice lit the fuse, causing the crowd to erupt into a cacophonic barrage of unfettered hatred.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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In notes about the latter film, the director urged audiences to "exalt in the excessive excellence of exhausted funds as they funnel into a whirlpool of wonder and weirdness made palpable in a cacophonic cascade of indescribable incoherence."
Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011
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Who wants to be in a crowded, cacophonic room, when one's own soul-centering salon beckons?
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Still, the talent itself was impressive enough to get us past the few times it was too cacophonic in the singing ring.
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Who wants to be in a crowded, cacophonic room, when one's own soul-centering salon beckons?
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Families and communities are shattered, as grating wails of pain, loss, misery and rage rise into the air like a cacophonic symphony of inconsolable grief.
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Who wants to be in a crowded, cacophonic room, when one's own soul-centering salon beckons?
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Who wants to be in a crowded, cacophonic room, when one's own soul-centering salon beckons?
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Burroughs hits the high and low notes with perfection in You Better Not Cry, his cacophonic version of the carol of the bells.
Nina Sankovitch: New Books Ring Out the Ghosts of Christmas Past 2009
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