cacophonous
/kəˈkɒf(ə)nəs
/adjective
Involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds: the cacophonous sound of slot machines...
- Together, her many voices create for the reader a symphony, discordant thought not cacophonous, of her being.
- He twists and turns in his efforts to get away from the cacophonous dissonance, and then untwists himself to get out of his sheets.
- But the distortion is kept to a minimum as they reach for different tools to hit dizzying new heights, creating cacophonous peaks only to expertly let the moments implode into stark, hypnotic introspection.
Synonyms
loud, noisy, ear-splitting, blaring, booming, thunderous, deafening;
raucous, discordant, dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, tuneless, harsh, strident, screeching, screechy, grating, jarring, jangling
rare horrisonant, absonant
