cacophony

Word family

LOUD/NOISYa loud unpleasant mixture of sounds 刺耳的嘈杂声

cacophony of

a cacophony of car horns

汽车喇叭嘈杂的嘟嘟声

—cacophonous adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

cacophony• Several hundred thousand newly arrived cars and trucks have turned Tirana into a cacophony of novice drivers, congestion and accidents.• A cacophony of violins, clarinets and trumpets fills the air.• Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film, but normally one would avoid such cacophony.• Their excited babble and their laughter carried far - the cacophony that ruined many a good hunt.• Imagine the cacophony, the confusion-this must have been one crazed country back then.• She could have screamed and the sound would have been accepted as part of the cacophony.• The seals added to the cacophony as they barked and honked in alarm to their pups and one another.• Half of the record aspired towards the cacophony of grinding rock and the other half was still emphasising their pop flair.

cacophony of• A cacophony of voices in a dozen languages filled the train station.

Origin cacophony

(1600-1700) Greek kakophonia, from kakos “bad” + phone “voice, sound”

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