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jarring

[d͡ʒɑːrɪŋ]US[d͡ʒɑːrɪŋ]

jarring adjective: that jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful. Also the present participle and gerund of jar.

Adjective

jarring (comparative more jarring, superlative most jarring)

  1. That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
    • The rings of iron that on the doors were hung / Sent out a jarring sound1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
    • The large cement works nearby are served by sidings, and strike a sudden jarring industrial note in the midst of the rural downland scene.1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 82

Noun

jarring (plural jarrings)

  1. Storage in jars.
    • The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.
  2. A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.
    • The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13

Also used as

jarring is also the present participle and gerund of jar.

jarring meaning in Bengali and Nepali

jarring in Bengali

জ্যারিং

jarring in Nepali

जेरिङ गर्न

Examples of jarring in a sentence

  • While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.
  • On immigration in particular, the change of tone was jarring, even from within the speech itself.
  • A jarring parrotlike voice assaulted me from the racks of leggings.

All 16 example sentences with jarring

Forms of jarring

Adjective
comparativemore jarring
superlativemost jarring
Noun
pluraljarrings

Origin of jarring

From jar (“to clash, conflict, disturb”) + -ing.

From jar + -ing.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from jarring

Questions about jarring

What does jarring mean?
Jarring means that jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
What is jarring in Bengali?
Jarring in Bengali is জ্যারিং. See Jarring meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is jarring?
Jarring can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce jarring?
Jarring is pronounced [d͡ʒɑːrɪŋ] (UK).

Words near jarring in the dictionary

  1. Jarresque
  2. jarreth
  3. Jarrett
  4. Jarretts
  5. Jarrick
  6. jarring
  7. jarringly
  8. jarringness
  9. jarrings
  10. Jarrod
  11. Jarrow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jarring (page history and authors); jarring (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jarring (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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