cacophony
harsh or unpleasant discordance of sound; dissonance: After living in the country, it's difficult for me to adjust to the cacophony produced by city traffic.
a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: The sound effects included a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.
Music. frequent use of harsh, discordant notes or chords that seem to be patternless and without connection to each other.
Origin of cacophony
1Other words from cacophony
- cac·o·phon·ic [kak-uh-fon-ik], /ˌkæk əˈfɒn ɪk/, adjective
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How to use cacophony in a sentence
It’s akin to playing neuronal “piano keys” into a melody that makes sense to the brain, rather than simultaneously pounding them into neurological cacophony.
How Do We Remember Places? This Study Used Lasers and VR to Point the Way | Shelly Fan | November 10, 2020 | Singularity HubOn Saturday night, the walls of the Kennedy Center Opera House capably blocked out the celebratory cacophony of horns and hollering that overtook the city.
At Kennedy Center recital, baritone Will Liverman is a voice for this historic moment | Michael Andor Brodeur | November 8, 2020 | Washington PostOvertoning allows us to incorporate plenty of herbs, spices or other closely related ingredients in a dish without it turning into a cacophony of contrasting elements.
There’s a science to food pairing, and you can learn it here | Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, and Johan Langenbick | October 22, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWorking at home is essentially like working in the most extreme open plan office—prone to the cacophony and clutter we once complained about when we were actually sitting at a proper desk in the office.
Enterprise location marketers definitely want choice but not the confusion and cacophony of too-many companies, which has defined this segment over the past half decade.
Foursquare becomes first company to receive MRC location-data accreditation | Greg Sterling | August 21, 2020 | Search Engine Land
Most cacophony events were one-off affairs, just enough to jam the culture a bit before moving on.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The idea was to mess with the concept of Christmas,” recalled John Law, an original cacophony member.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAny upcoming release of a new Apple product guarantees a deafening cacophony of idle speculation from tech sites.
Amateur Stuntmen, the iPhone 6, and More Viral Videos | Jack Holmes | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBadges hanging from their necks boast small national flags, and a cacophony of accents represents more than 20 countries.
A Camp Away From Terror: Where Israeli and Palestinian Kids Find Common Ground | Nina Strochlic | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor Clinton and the Democrats, the cacophony out of Arizona is music to their ears.
Republicans Better Mind the Modernity Gap To Catch Up to Clinton | Lloyd Green | March 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis huge hand caught the hypnotic stone and swept it into crashing, ear-splitting cacophony against the cold steel bulkhead.
The Link | Alan Edward NourseYou think youse The rest was jumbled up or lost in the usual cacophony of the thoroughfare.
Nothing But the Truth | Frederic S. IshamHuman intrusion brought a constant cacophony of cries and chattered complaints from birds and beasts.
The Lone Ranger Rides | Fran StrikerConsequently they have sacrificed their Italian birthright of melody for all kinds of cacophony.
Great Singers on the Art of Singing | James Francis CookeThe old Flemish joyousness of colour passed into a consumptive cacophony.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard Muther
British Dictionary definitions for cacophony
/ (kəˈkɒfənɪ) /
harsh discordant sound; dissonance
the use of unharmonious or dissonant speech sounds in language
- Compare euphony
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