cacophonous
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
cacophonic, absonant, 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: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcacophonous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cacophonous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary