Thesaurus:cacophonous

Thesaurus

cacophonous

English

Adjective

Sense: having an unpleasant sound

Synonyms

• absonant (rare)
• cacophonic
• cacophonical
• cacophonious
• cacophonous
• discordant
• disharmonious
• dissonant
• honeyed
• horrisonant
• horrisonous (obsolete)
• immelodious (archaic)
• inharmonious
• insonorous
• noneuphonious
• nonsonorous
• raucous
• scabrous (figuratively)
• tuneless
• uneuphonious
• unmusical
• unharmonious
• unlistenable
• unmellifluous
• unmelodic
• unmelodious
• unmusical
• untunable (archaic)
• unsonorous

Antonyms

• euphonious    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• drony
• strident
• stridulous
•   —
• croaky
• grating
• guttural
• hoarse
• nasal
• raspy
• sibilant    [⇒ thesaurus]
• throaty

Hypernyms

• audible    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unpleasant    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• harsh
• jarring

Further reading

• “414. discord” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “cacophonous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.