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Cacophonous

//kəˈkɑfənəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

    "[…] Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having an unpleasant sound wordnet

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Ancient Greek κακόφωνος (kakóphōnos) + -ous, from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -φωνος (-phōnos, “sounding”). By surface analysis, caco- + -phonous.

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