Antonyms of adj cacophonous
1 sense of cacophonous
Sense 1
cacophonous (vs. euphonious), cacophonic -- (having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten)
euphonious (vs. cacophonous), euphonous -- (having a pleasant sound; "a euphonious trill of silver laughter")
=> golden -- (suggestive of gold; "a golden voice")
=> silvern, silvery -- (resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones")
Similarity of adj cacophonous
1 sense of cacophonous
Sense 1
cacophonous (vs. euphonious), cacophonic -- (having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten)
=> cackly, squawky -- (like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg)
=> croaky, guttural -- (like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs")
=> grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy -- (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice")
=> gruff, hoarse, husky -- (deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson)
=> jangling, jangly -- (like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs")
=> jarring -- (making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk")
=> raucous, strident -- (unpleasantly loud and harsh)
=> rending, ripping, splitting -- (resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward")
Also See-> noisy#1