cacophonous

Questions about cacophonous

What does cacophonous mean?

cacophonous means "having an unpleasant sound".

How many syllables are in cacophonous?

cacophonous has 4 syllables: ca-co-pho-nous. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cacophonous?

Close synonyms include cacophonic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cacophonous?

The recorded antonyms are euphonious.

Is cacophonous a common word?

cacophonous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.