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Musty vs Cacophonous - What's the difference?

musty | cacophonous |

As adjectives the difference between musty and cacophonous

is that musty is having a stale odor while cacophonous is containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

musty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a stale odor.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.

    cacophonous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
  • * 2006 , Everett True, Nirvana: The Biography , Da Capo Press (2007), ISBN 9780306815546, 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.
  • * 2011 , Fern Michaels, To Taste the Wine , Kensington Books (2011), ISBN 9780758242747, page 153:
    • and the cacophonous clatter of pots and pans accompanied the vociferous complaints of the ship's cook.
  • * 2012 , Michael D. Breed & Janice Moore, Animal Behavior , Academic Press (2012), ISBN 9780123725813, page 199 (image caption):
    • A colony of pelicans can be cacophonous .

    Synonyms

    * inharmonious, unmusical, unmelodic

    Antonyms

    * harmonious, musical, euphonious

    Related terms

    * cacophony * cacophonic