Cacophony
noun
A harsh, loud, and unpleasant mixture of sounds.
The children's band created a cacophony with their unpracticed instruments.
Often appears as...
- a cacophony of sounds
- make a cacophony
noun
A situation full of noise and confusion.
The bustling market was a cacophony of people talking, vendors selling, and vehicles honking.
Often appears as...
- a cacophony of voices
- a cacophony of noise
noun
A harsh, loud, and unpleasant mixture of sounds.
The children's band created a cacophony with their unpracticed instruments.
Often appears as...
- a cacophony of sounds
- make a cacophony
noun
A situation full of noise and confusion.
The bustling market was a cacophony of people talking, vendors selling, and vehicles honking.
Often appears as...
- a cacophony of voices
- a cacophony of noise
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Harsh Sounds
Used to describe soundscapes that are jarring to the ear and not harmonious.
The factory machines produced a cacophony that was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
Conveys a sense of irritation or discomfort due to the unpleasant sounds.
Awoken by a cacophony of car alarms, she started her day feeling frazzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Unmanaged Chaos
Implies a lack of control over the contributing sounds, suggesting disorganization.
The uncoordinated band practice descended into cacophony.
Pro Tip 1/3Harsh Sounds
Used to describe soundscapes that are jarring to the ear and not harmonious.
The factory machines produced a cacophony that was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
Conveys a sense of irritation or discomfort due to the unpleasant sounds.
Awoken by a cacophony of car alarms, she started her day feeling frazzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Unmanaged Chaos
Implies a lack of control over the contributing sounds, suggesting disorganization.
The uncoordinated band practice descended into cacophony.
Pro Tip 1/3Harsh Sounds
Used to describe soundscapes that are jarring to the ear and not harmonious.
The factory machines produced a cacophony that was unbearable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
Conveys a sense of irritation or discomfort due to the unpleasant sounds.
Awoken by a cacophony of car alarms, she started her day feeling frazzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Unmanaged Chaos
Implies a lack of control over the contributing sounds, suggesting disorganization.
The uncoordinated band practice descended into cacophony.
Never forget "Cacophony"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
How much of what you see...
sometimes as elaborate as the cacophony of an entire marching band. In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations,
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
It sounds like a cacophony, but after several weeks, blind people start getting pretty good at understanding what's in front of them just based on what they're hearing. And it doesn't have to be through the this system uses an electrotactile grid on the forehead,
Video examples
Into Darkness by Bridget...
surface instead to cerulean whirlwind a world of high winds and low liquids 14 nymph named moons keeping watch and then the last or perhaps the first please how you are a cacophony of contradiction reclassified dwarf planet king of the
Video examples
5 ways to listen better...
first writing, then audio recording and now video recording as well. The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply disappeared. Secondly, the world is now so noisy, with this cacophony going on visually and auditorily,
Video examples
Transforming a Studio...
small and strange environment this human has boldly traveled far from a natural countryside habitat but is not as adapted to this harsh alien world it threatens her instinctual behavior her ears are assaulted like a cacophony of
Video examples
Julia Dhar: How to have...
But he was also leaving those behind with everyone that he'd interacted with. We love unlikely friendships when they look like this. We've just forgotten how to make them. And amid the cacophony of cable news
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
countries neither peace nor pause in fact every significant ambassador at the United Nations was lobbied in his or her office often more than once with a torrent of material and a cacophony of
Video examples
The urgency of...
Several black women's names will come up. I'd like those of you who are able to join us in saying these names as loud as you can, randomly, disorderly. Let's create a cacophony of sound
Video examples
What happens in your...
Kh, kh, kh, kh, kh. A cacophony of cackling kookaburras and cockatoos in Kakadu couldn't quite quit ketamine. Alright, now in the beatboxing world,
Video examples
Dolphin Gang War PIPE Ocean...
this time as they enter the water there's a cacophony of clicks and whistles trouble is
Video examples
How much of what you see...
sometimes as elaborate as the cacophony of an entire marching band. In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations,
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
It sounds like a cacophony, but after several weeks, blind people start getting pretty good at understanding what's in front of them just based on what they're hearing. And it doesn't have to be through the this system uses an electrotactile grid on the forehead,
Video examples
Into Darkness by Bridget...
surface instead to cerulean whirlwind a world of high winds and low liquids 14 nymph named moons keeping watch and then the last or perhaps the first please how you are a cacophony of contradiction reclassified dwarf planet king of the
Video examples
5 ways to listen better...
first writing, then audio recording and now video recording as well. The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply disappeared. Secondly, the world is now so noisy, with this cacophony going on visually and auditorily,
Video examples
Transforming a Studio...
small and strange environment this human has boldly traveled far from a natural countryside habitat but is not as adapted to this harsh alien world it threatens her instinctual behavior her ears are assaulted like a cacophony of
Video examples
Julia Dhar: How to have...
But he was also leaving those behind with everyone that he'd interacted with. We love unlikely friendships when they look like this. We've just forgotten how to make them. And amid the cacophony of cable news
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
countries neither peace nor pause in fact every significant ambassador at the United Nations was lobbied in his or her office often more than once with a torrent of material and a cacophony of
Video examples
The urgency of...
Several black women's names will come up. I'd like those of you who are able to join us in saying these names as loud as you can, randomly, disorderly. Let's create a cacophony of sound
Video examples
What happens in your...
Kh, kh, kh, kh, kh. A cacophony of cackling kookaburras and cockatoos in Kakadu couldn't quite quit ketamine. Alright, now in the beatboxing world,
Video examples
Dolphin Gang War PIPE Ocean...
this time as they enter the water there's a cacophony of clicks and whistles trouble is
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
James Chanos
American Businessman
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
Quote examples
Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.
Quote examples
Richard Preston
American Writer
The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.
Quote examples
Alan Thicke
Canadian Actor
In terms of social media, I try to have my voice heard loudly in the cacophony of other influences whether from television and the Internet or social media... I want my voice to be heard in terms of the standards and values that I try to pass on to my kids.
Quote examples
Ken Loach
English Director
Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.
Quote examples
Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
Quote examples
J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
Quote examples
Phylicia Rashad
American Actress
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
Quote examples
Brad Pitt
Actor
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
Quote examples
Katharine Gun
British Activist
We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.
Quote examples
James Chanos
American Businessman
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
Quote examples
Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.
Quote examples
Richard Preston
American Writer
The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.
Quote examples
Alan Thicke
Canadian Actor
In terms of social media, I try to have my voice heard loudly in the cacophony of other influences whether from television and the Internet or social media... I want my voice to be heard in terms of the standards and values that I try to pass on to my kids.
Quote examples
Ken Loach
English Director
Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.
Quote examples
Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
Quote examples
J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
Quote examples
Phylicia Rashad
American Actress
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
Quote examples
Brad Pitt
Actor
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
Quote examples
Katharine Gun
British Activist
We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.
Example 1 of 10
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension