Synonyms for cacophonous
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Raucous
raucous, discordant, dissonant, noisy, tuneless, strident, rough, grating, harsh, unmusical, cacophonic, inharmonious, disharmonious, unmelodious, unmelodic, jarring, cracked, unharmonious, horrisonous dated
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
A colony of pelicans can be cacophonous.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- audible unpleasant
Example sentences
- noisy It was so noisy that I couldn't make myself heard.
- raucous Their raucous behavior disturbed the neighbors.
- discordant He laughed with a metallic and discordant sound.
- dissonant Contemporary classical music is often very dissonant.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cacophonous | rising | |
| noisy | rising | |
| raucous | rising | |
| discordant | steady | |
| dissonant | rising | |
| uneuphonious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- rough1, harsh1, noisy2
- 7 letters
- cracked1, grating2, jarring2, raucous2
- 8 letters
- strident2, tuneless
- 9 letters
- dissonant3, unmusical, unmelodic
- 10 letters
- discordant3, cacophonic
- 11 letters
- unmelodious, horrisonous
- 12 letters
- inharmonious, unharmonious, uneuphonious
- 13 letters
- disharmonious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (noisy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- cacophonique
- Italiano
- cacofonico