a. [f. Gr. κακόφωνος ill-sounding + -OUS.] Ill-sounding, having a harsh or unpleasant sound.
1797. Month. Rev., XXIII. 579. The cacophonous repetition of rumpf displeases.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett. (1814), I. 280. The names, like the language … are … sufficiently cacophonous to a southern ear.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 318. The name of this illustrious but cacophonous benefactor of his kind was Wilhelm Deukelzoon.
1867. Macfarren, Harmony (ed. 2), ii. 58. Thus divesting it of its cacophonous effect.
