cacophony
Syllables: ca·coph·o·nyUK/kəˈkɒfəni//kəˈkɑfəni/
cacophony noun: a mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
Noun
cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)
- A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator
- The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were...2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 10:55 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022
- Synonyms:
- caterwauling, discord, discordance, discordancy, dyscrasy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, ear rape, inharmony
cacophony meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
cacophony in Urdu
- بےسرا پن, کرخت آوازی
cacophony in Bengali
- কর্কশ, শ্রুতিকটু শব্দের মিশ্রণ
cacophony in Malayalam
- racket, din, noise
- ചിലപ്പ്, ചിലമ്പൽ, ഇരമ്പൽ, ശബ്ദകോലാഹലം, അപസ്വരം, അവസ്വരം
cacophony in Kannada
- ಶೃತಿಕಷ್ಟ, ಅಪಸ್ವರ
More languagesFewer languages
- cacophony in Gujarati
- કર્કશોચ્ચાર karkaśoccār
- cacophony in Tagalog
- dihunig
- cacophony in Persian
- صدای گوشخراش sedâ-ye guš-xarâš
Synonyms of cacophony
- caterwauling
- discord
- discordance
- discordancy
- dyscrasy
- disharmony
- dissonance
- dissonancy
- ear rape
- inharmony
Antonyms
Forms of cacophony
| plural | cacophonies |
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Origin of cacophony
From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία (kakophōnía), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony.
Words formed from cacophony
Words that rhyme with cacophony
Questions about cacophony
- What does cacophony mean?
- Cacophony means a mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- What is cacophony in Urdu?
- Cacophony in Urdu is بےسرا پن, کرخت آوازی. See Cacophony meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is cacophony?
- Cacophony is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cacophony?
- Cacophony is pronounced /kəˈkɒfəni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cacophony?
- The plural of cacophony is cacophonies.
Words near cacophony in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cacophony (page history and authors); cacophony (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cacophony (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cacophony (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cacophony (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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