cacophonies

Meaning of cacophonies

plural noun
  1. a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.
    a cacophony of deafening alarm bells

mid 17th century: from French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōnia, from kakophōnos ‘ill-sounding’, from kakos ‘bad’ + phōnē ‘sound’.

Information about cacophonies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of cacophonies is: cacophony.
  • Languages ​​in which cacophonies is used:

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Hyphenation of cacophonies

ca-coph-o-nies

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • cacophonies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

cacophonies synonyms

Meaning a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise:

din

Meaning a bat with a round or oval frame strung with catgut, nylon, etc., used especially in tennis, badminton, and squash:

racket

Meaning a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance:

noise

Meaning lack of harmony between notes sounding together:

discord

Meaning lack of harmony among musical notes:

dissonance

Meaning lack of agreement or consistency:

discordance

Meaning make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat:

caterwauling

Meaning (of a person or animal) give a loud, harsh, piercing cry:

screeching

Meaning incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing:

jarring

Meaning sounding harsh and unpleasant:

grating

Meaning harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating:

rasping

Words that rhyme with cacophonies

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