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cacophony

English

Etymology

From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kakoph?nía), from ????? (kakós, bad) + ???? (ph?n?, sound).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /k??k?f?ni/
  • (US) IPA(key): /k??k?f?ni/

Noun

cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)

  1. A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
    • 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,
      Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

Antonyms

  • euphony
  • harmony

Derived terms

  • cacophonic
  • cacophonous
  • castrophony

Related terms

  • anthropophony
  • cacophonous
  • dissonance
  • harmony

Translations

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brawling

English

Verb

brawling

  1. present participle of brawl

Noun

brawling (plural brawlings)

  1. An unruly fight; a brawl.
    • 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury
      Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.

Anagrams

  • warbling

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