cacophonous
adjective
, -ˈkȯ- also -ˈka-\
Definition of cacophonous
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Synonyms & Antonyms for cacophonous
Synonyms
discordant, dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unvocal
Antonyms
harmonious, harmonizing, melodious, musical
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Examples of cacophonous in a Sentence
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During the brief and tenuous dusk that passes for night in summer, people from around the globe jam into cacophonous nightclubs that pulsate until 5 in the morning. — New York Times, "Iceland’s Purple Planes Are Grounded, and With Them, Its Economy," 25 Aug. 2019 Kidman's divine performance notwithstanding, this reviewer was ready for Satine to croak by the 15-minute mark of Luhrmann's exhausting film, which throws you into a melee of cacophonous medleys and flashy quick cuts that never let up. — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, "Review: Lady Gaga, Adele bring Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge!' musical to soaring new heights," 10 June 2019 Instead there’s a cacophonous din of competing ideas, as students convene in animated groups around communal tables, shouting out solutions while feverishly diagramming them on the whiteboards that panel the walls. — Aryn Baker/mauritius, Time, "‘It’s Time Africa Had Its Own Harvard.’ Inside a University Training African Leaders to Solve African Problems," 11 June 2019 As the boat passed a small island, an African fish eagle was seen nested near a cacophonous gathering of cormorants. — Benedict Moran, National Geographic, "Rwanda's war nearly destroyed this park. Now it's coming back.," 7 May 2019 Amid the cacophonous cheering at the corporate-arena National Basketball Association Finals, think a kindly thought about the Cow Palace just south of San Francisco. — Bob Greene, WSJ, "The Cow Palace, Out to Pasture," 30 May 2019 The novel has been rightly praised as a masterwork of realism, and the scenes are cacophonous with noises and pungent with smells. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: Black and White, in Wind and Fog," 22 Feb. 2019 Florence in the spring is already a cacophonous babel of tourists, guides, and souvenir hawkers clogging narrow streets, crowding ancient piazzas. — Erik Maza, Town & Country, "Exclusive: Tour Florence's Rarely Seen Palazzo Spini Feroni," 27 Feb. 2019 Fast-forward another three hours and the cacophonous chorus was still going strong. — Chloe Schama, Vogue, "So You’re a Lunatic Who Is Taking Your Toddlers on a Long-Haul Flight," 26 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cacophonous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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