cacophonous
Meanings
Adjective
- having an unpleasant sound; - John McCarten
- "as cacophonous as a henyard"
Adj
- Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice”).
Synonyms
absonant, cacophonic, cacophonical, cacophonious, cacophonous, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, honeyed, horrisonant, horrisonous, immelodious, inharmonious, insonorous, noneuphonious, nonsonorous, raucous, scabrous, tuneless, uneuphonious, unharmonious, unlistenable, unmellifluous, unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical, unsonorous, untunable
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 20
cacophonous is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcacophonous is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cacophonous is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary