cacophony
noun
1 cacophony
A loud harsh or strident noise.
synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din.
Roget 410:
creak
etc.
v.;
creaking
etc.
v.;
discord,
etc.
414;
stridor;
roughness,
sharpness,
etc.
adj.;
cacophony;
cacoepy†.
acute note,
high note;
soprano,
treble,
tenor,
alto,
falsetto,
penny trumpet,
voce di testa [It].
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Roget 414:
discord,
discordance;
dissonance,
cacophony,
want of harmony,
caterwauling;
harshness
etc.
410.
[Confused sounds],
Babel,
Dutch concert,
cat's concert;
marrowbones and cleavers.
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Roget 579:
inelegance;
stiffness
etc.
adj.;
unlettered Muse"
[Gray];
barbarism;
slang
etc.
563;
solecism
etc.
568;
mannerism
etc.
(affectation)
855;
euphuism†;
fustian
etc.
577;
cacophony;
words that break the teeth,
words that dislocate the jaw;
marinism†.
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Dutch: lawaai, geraas
2 cacophony
Loud confusing disagreeable sounds.
Dutch: wanklank, kakofonie
Polish: kakofonia
Moby thesaurus: Babel, Gothicism, agitation, atonalism, atonality, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bedlam, bluster, bombasticness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacology, chaos, clinker, clumsiness, coarseness, commotion, confusion of tongues, cracked voice, crudeness, cumbrousness, defacement, discord, discordance, discordancy, disfigurement, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, disturbance, dryness, dysphemism, ebullition, embroilment, fanaticism, ferment, flap, flatness, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gracelessness, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, heaviness, hell, hoarseness, homeliness, hubbub, huskiness, ill-balanced sentences, ill-favoredness, impropriety, impurity, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, noise, off note, pandemonium, passion, plainness, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, racket, rage, raspiness, raucity, roughness, row, ruckus, rudeness, rumpus, scrapiness, scratchiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shapelessness, sharpness, slipshod construction, sour note, sourness, static, stertorousness, stiltedness, storminess, stridor, tastelessness, tempestuousness, thickness, throatiness, tumult, tumultuousness, tunelessness, turbulence, turgidity, turmoil, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unharmoniousness, unloveliness, unmusicality, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, untunefulness, unwieldiness, uproar, upset, vulgarism, vulgarity, wildness, wolf, zeal, zealousness ... show more.
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