Cacophonous vs Monotonous - What's the difference?
cacophonous | monotonous |
Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
* 2006 , Everett True, Nirvana: The Biography , Da Capo Press (2007), ISBN 9780306815546,
* 2011 , Fern Michaels, To Taste the Wine , Kensington Books (2011), ISBN 9780758242747,
* 2012 , Michael D. Breed & Janice Moore, Animal Behavior , Academic Press (2012), ISBN 9780123725813,
having an unvarying tone or pitch
tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
As adjectives the difference between cacophonous and monotonous
is that cacophonous is containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds while monotonous is having an unvarying tone or pitch.cacophonous
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(en adjective)page 58:
- The first time I saw the NYC quartet [Sonic Youth] was in 1983 for their Confusion Is Sex album, when they filled The Venue in Victoria, London with a cacophonous maelstrom of mangled sounds that still reverberates, more than two decades on.
page 153:
- and the cacophonous clatter of pots and pans accompanied the vociferous complaints of the ship's cook.
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- A colony of pelicans can be cacophonous .