【每日一词】cacophony - n. an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds 刺耳嘈杂的声音;杂音;n. 刺耳的音调；不和谐音

Definition: noun

1: harsh or jarring sound : DISSONANCE sense 2

specifically : harshness in the sound of words or phrases

2: an incongruous or chaotic mixture : a striking combination

a cacophony of color

a cacophony of smells

Synonyms

babel,blare,bluster,bowwow,brawl,bruit [archaic],chatter,clamor,clangor, decibel(s),din,discordance,katzenjammer,noise,racket,rattle,roar

Examples of cacophony in a Sentence

1 The cacophony of phlegmatic and tubercular lungs was punctuated here and there by a moan or a scream of someone terrified, thrashing in the throes of a nightmare.

—Ronald Gearles, Undoing Time, 2001

2 Seething gas just beneath the sun's visible surface generates a cacophony of sound waves that ring the sun like a giant bell. —R. Cowen, Science News, 18 Mar. 2000

3 Shell casings littered the highway, where a cacophony of car alarms and sobbing rent the winter air. —Jeff Stein, GQ, December 1997

4 … no matter how forbearing he might have been, there were times when he simply needed to escape that cacophony of piping voices … —T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993

5 Their mothers, Ola and Karolina, smile at the cacophony: the sounds of a happy family. —Rob Schmitz, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024

6 But while studying the fishes’ brains in a laboratory, a team of researchers in Germany recently decided to investigate the cacophony coming from the creatures’ tanks. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024

7 Shouting into his mobile phone above the cacophony of engines and horns, the farmer from south of Paris is one of 200 others clogging up the highway into the French capital. —Nayla Razzouk, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024