MELLIFLUOUSNESS Antonyms

• a loud harsh or strident noise

• loud confusing disagreeable sounds

• lack of agreement or harmony

• disagreement among those expected to cooperate

• a harsh mixture of sounds

• strife resulting from a lack of agreement

• be different from one another

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

• disagreeable sounds

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

• excessive sternness

• making or causing a harsh and irritating sound

• a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• an unpolished unrefined quality

• used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

• rowdy behavior

• the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

• harsh or severe speech or behavior

• conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

• of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

• being sharply insistent on being heard

• unpleasantly loud and harsh

• not having a musical sound or pleasing tune

• lacking melody