Cacophony \Ca*coph"o*ny\, n.; pl. Cacophonies. [Gr. ?????????;
kako`s bad + ???? sound: cf. F. Cacophonie.]
1. (Rhet.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to
the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
"Cacophonies of all kinds." --Pope.
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2. (Mus.) A combination of discordant sounds.
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3. (Med.) An unhealthy state of the voice.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cacophony
n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, clamor,
din]
2: loud confusing disagreeable sounds
WordNet (r) 2.0
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "cacophony":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blare, blaring, cacophony society, clamor, daughters of cacophony, din, real to real cacophony
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