different between cacophony vs strident

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

English

Etymology

From French strident, from Latin str?d?ns, present active participle of str?d?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?st?a?.d?nt/, [?st?a?d?nt]

Adjective

strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)

1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding

2. Grating or obnoxious
3. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides

Derived terms

• stridently
• stridency

Related terms

Translations

Noun

strident (plural stridents)

1. (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.

   Hypernym: fricative

Translations

References

• strident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “strident”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• tridents

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?i.d??/

Adjective

strident (feminine singular stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)

1. strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound

Further reading

• “strident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tridents

Latin

Verb

str?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of str?d?

Romanian

Etymology

From French strident, from Latin stridens.

Adjective

strident m or n (feminine singular strident?, masculine plural striden?i, feminine and neuter plural stridente)

1. strident

Declension