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CACOPHONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cacophonic mean? 

CACOPHONIC (adjective)
  The adjective CACOPHONIC has 1 sense:

1. having an unpleasant soundplay

  Familiarity information: CACOPHONIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CACOPHONIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an unpleasant sound

Synonyms:

cacophonic; cacophonous

Context example:

as cacophonous as a henyard

Similar:

cackly; squawky (like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg)

croaky; guttural (like the sounds of frogs and crows)

grating; gravelly; rasping; raspy; rough; scratchy (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound)

gruff; hoarse; husky (deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion)

jangling; jangly (like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together)

jarring (making or causing a harsh and irritating sound)

raucous; strident (unpleasantly loud and harsh)

rending; ripping; splitting (resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree)

Also:

noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)

Derivation:

cacophony (loud confusing disagreeable sounds)

cacophony (a loud harsh or strident noise)


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