different between uproar vs cacophony
uproar
English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????/
Noun
uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, outrage
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
Derived terms
- uproarious
- uproarish
Translations
Verb
uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- […] had I power, I should
- Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
- Uproar the universal peace, confound
- All unity on earth.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,[3]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
- 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,[4]
- When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
- And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
- 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,[5]
- Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
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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)
- 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.
- 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,
Antonyms
- euphony
- harmony
Derived terms
- cacophonic
- cacophonous
- castrophony
Related terms
- anthropophony
- cacophonous
- dissonance
- harmony
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