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Cacophonious   Listen
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Cacophonious, Cacophonous, Cacophonical, Cacophonic  adj.  Harsh-sounding.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cacophonious" Quotes from Famous Books



... with musicians who were handicapped by cacophonous or undignified names. For example, a singer called Hewlett or Ball laboured under a serious disadvantage when competing with artistes blessed with melodious appellations such as Bellincioni ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 • Various

... limited knowledge possessed by the critics. Thus, for instance, in the Comedy of Errors (I. i. 152) the Duke bids Aegeon to "seek thy help by beneficial help." At once there is a chorus from all of us, sciolists, of "Corruption!" "Sophistication!" "Cacophonous repetition!" etc. etc. "But gently, friends," says Dr. Ingleby: "may not 'help' have borne a different or a special meaning in Elizabethan English?" and turning to medical writers and books on medicine of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various

... alternating the Ute war-whoop with the Swiss yodel. It was truly cacophonous, but it produced results. Minute figures came to the brow of the hill opposite, and looked at us like cautious cockroaches and then went away. At last two shadowy beetles crawled down the zigzag trail to the ferry-boat, and began bailing her out. ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... ear, jar upon the ear. Adj. creaking &c. v.; stridulous[obs3], harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous|, rough, gruff, grum[obs3], sepulchral, hollow. sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant &c. 414; cacophonous. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... be interesting to know where Mery got this hideous, cacophonous, hopelessly anti-analogical and anti-etymological but alas! actually existing name. I never heard of a ship called by it, but I once knew a poor lady on whom it had been inflicted at her baptism. Why any one with Jemima (not, of course, originally ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury



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