cacophony
Meaning of cacophony
- a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.
a cacophony of deafening alarm bells
mid 17th century: from French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōnia, from kakophōnos ‘ill-sounding’, from kakos ‘bad’ + phōnē ‘sound’.
Information about cacophony
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cacophony is: cacophonies.
- Languages in which cacophony is used:
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Hyphenation of cacophony
ca-coph-ony
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- cacophony is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
cacophony synonyms
Meaning blare:
Meaning a bat with a round or oval frame strung with catgut, nylon, etc., used especially in tennis, badminton, and squash:
Meaning a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance:
Meaning lack of harmony between notes sounding together:
Meaning lack of harmony among musical notes:
Meaning lack of agreement or consistency:
Meaning make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat:
Meaning (of a person or animal) give a loud, harsh, piercing cry:
Meaning incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing:
Meaning sounding harsh and unpleasant:
Meaning harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating:
Translation of cacophony
- French: cacophonie
- Spanish: cacofonía
- Portuguese: cacofonia
- Italian: cacofonia
Words that rhyme with cacophony
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