Cacophony - English meaning

verb

Make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat.

Usage examples:

He seems to think that singing soulfully is to whine and caterwaul tunelessly

noun

A shrill howling or wailing noise.

Usage examples:

The song ended in a caterwaul of feedback

noun

A high unpleasant noise like a cat, made by a person or animal

Usage examples:

I heard some dreadful caterwauling - was that you singing?, a heart-rending caterwauling came from …

noun

A loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise.

Usage examples:

The fans made an awful din

verb

Make (someone) learn or remember an idea by constant repetition.

Usage examples:

A runner-up, he dinned into them, was a loser

noun

Any of a series of technical standards originating in germany and used internationally, especially to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes.

Usage examples:

A din socket

noun

Disagreement between people.

Usage examples:

A prosperous family who showed no signs of discord

verb

(of people) disagree.

Usage examples:

We discorded commonly on two points

noun

A lack of agreement or feeling of trust between people

Usage examples:

The plan to build the highway created discord in our community.

noun

Lack of agreement or consistency.

Usage examples:

The discordance between sales and evidence should be a focus

noun

An unpleasant sound or combination of sounds

Usage examples:

The third movement failed to impress me and came close to discordance in my ears., "there is no dis…

noun

A disagreement, or the quality of not being in agreement with something or someone else

Usage examples:

Discordance between "there is no discordance between this report and the president's position on cl…

noun

Lack of harmony among musical notes.

Usage examples:

An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles

noun

A combination of sounds or musical notes that are not pleasant when heard together

Usage examples:

The jarring dissonance of klein's musical score

noun

Disagreement

adjective

Sounding harsh and unpleasant.

Usage examples:

A high, grating voice

noun

A framework of parallel or crossed bars, typically preventing access through an opening while permitting communication or ventilation.

Usage examples:

Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.

verb

Reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater.

Usage examples:

Peel and roughly grate the carrots

adjective

Incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing.

Usage examples:

The telephone struck a jarring note in those renaissance surroundings

verb

Send a painful or damaging shock through (something, especially a part of the body).

Usage examples:

He jarred the knee in training

adjective

Different from surrounding or usual things, or disagreeing with others, and therefore surprising or upsetting

Usage examples:

A jarring succession of images, the band took a new, if jarring, approach to this music.

noun

A sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance.

Usage examples:

Making a noise like a pig

verb

Talk about or make known publicly.

Usage examples:

You've discovered something that should not be noised about

noun

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

Usage examples:

A squash racket

verb

Make or move with a loud unpleasant noise.

Usage examples:

Trains racketed by

noun

An object consisting of a net fixed tightly to an oval frame with a long handle, used in various sports for hitting a ball

Usage examples:

A tennis/squash racket, who’s making such a racket?

adjective

Harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating.

Usage examples:

His cracked, rasping voice narrates the story

verb

Make a harsh, grating noise.

Usage examples:

My breath rasped in my throat

adjective

A rasping sound or a rasping voice is unpleasantly rough

Usage examples:

Rasping cough the man had a rasping cough that left him gasping for breath., rasping voice with his…

noun

The quality of being loud and energetic

Usage examples:

His songs mix sophisticated songwriting with bar-room raucousness., the crowd's appreciative raucou…

verb

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

Usage examples:

She hit her brother, causing him to screech with pain

noun

Loud, harsh piercing cries or noises.

Usage examples:

The screeching of a macaw

adjective

Making a loud, harsh, piercing sound.

Usage examples:

A screeching flock of parrots

noun

The fact of being expressed, or of expressing things, in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people

Usage examples:

The stridency of his remarks show how rattled he is., as the situation becomes more desperate, ther…