sound pollution

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   annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise

   Synonymsnoise pollution

   Broaderpollution

Questions about sound pollution

What does sound pollution mean?

sound pollution means "annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise".

What is another word for sound pollution?

Close synonyms include noise pollution. 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.

Is sound pollution a common word?

sound pollution 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.