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UK
/kɐkˈɒfənəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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having an unpleasant sound
as cacophonous as a henyard
How To Use cacophonous In A Sentence
- While Doria and Denardo clearly embrace the primal power of the drone, their sound is loud but not dissonant or cacophonous, and is seldom if ever grating but instead clean.
- Narrative supersedes melody time after time; there are no real songs, just cacophonous noodling and stacks and stacks of polysyllabic words.
- Our past has become the cacophonous cathedral of the American conversation, while our once-ranging future has shrunk into a snug and warm place, as cozy and shag carpeted as a suburban den.
- The day in the alley begins in a way that is busy but not in disorder, dynamic but not cacophonous, routine but not boring.
- The music of commerce would thus be harmonious and evenly paced, its dynamics restrained; there would be no swelling crescendo of the Boom, no cacophonous accelerando to the climax and no minor key diminuendo thereafter into the Bust.
- It was nothing more than 5 to 10-bar sustained cacophonous triads with some crescendi and decrescendi and an occasional tri-tone shocker. NPR Topics: News
- Their chatter, laughter, and shouts rose up in a wall of cacophonous sound that echoed and re-echoed in the cavernous building, creating an incessant roar like a pounding surf.
- Instrumentally, it's a cacophonous blend of drums, percussion, bass, keyboards and electronics.
- Where the whole cacophonous coyote-ogre circus froze into silence, suddenly aware it was not alone. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- The earliest performances of kabuki were dancing and song with no significant plot, often disdained as gaudy and cacophonous, but equally lauded as colorful and beautiful.