Cacophonous

//kəˈkɑfənəs//

Synonyms for "cacophonous" (95 found)

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Translations

19 translations across 14 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • cacofònic adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Danish

1 entries
  • kakofonisk adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kakofoninen adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

French

1 entries
  • cacophonique adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

German

2 entries
  • kakophon adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)
  • kakophonisch adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Greek

1 entries
  • κακόφωνος adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Italian

1 entries
  • cacofonico adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • kakofonisk adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • kakofonisk adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • cacofônico adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Russian

3 entries
  • какофони́ческий adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)
  • неблагозву́чный adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)
  • нестро́йный adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Spanish

2 entries
  • cacofónico adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)
  • cacófono adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Swedish

1 entries
  • kakofonisk adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Turkish

2 entries
  • ahenksiz adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)
  • kakofonik adj (containing or consisting of unpleasant sounds)

Sample sentences

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[…] 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.

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The good thing about this job is that it gives me time and space to contemplate the future at my leisure, whilst the city sleeps, free from the cacophonous curiosity of the hoi polloi.

Source: wiktionary

The first time I saw the NYC quartet [Sonic Youth] was in 1983 for their Confusion Is Sex album, when they filled The Venue in Victoria, London with a cacophonous maelstrom of mangled sounds that still reverberates, more than two decades on.

Source: wiktionary

[…] and the cacophonous clatter of pots and pans accompanied the vociferous complaints of the ship's cook.

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