adjective

• Involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

  ‘the cacophonous sound of slot machines’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’
  • ‘Energy, however, unless properly channeled, formally controlled and orchestrated, can end up as pandemonium - a lot of senseless rushing around and a merciless, cacophonous din.’
  • ‘Our past has become the cacophonous cathedral of the American conversation, while our once-ranging future has shrunk into a snug and warm place, as cozy and shag carpeted as a suburban den.’

  Synonyms

  loud, noisy, ear-splitting, blaring, booming, thunderous, deafening

  View synonyms