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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating; scraping |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disagreeable, discordant, displeasing, dissonant, dry, grinding, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, irksome, jarring, offensive, rasping, raucous, rough, shrill, squeaky, strident, stridulent, stridulous, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | grate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | irritate |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, annoy, burn, chafe, exasperate, fret, gall, get on one's nerves, irk, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, rankle, rile, rub the wrong way, vex |
| Antonyms: | make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | abrasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scraping or wearing down by friction |
| Synonyms: | abrading, chafing, erosion, grating, rubbing, scratching, scuffing |
| Notes: | abrasion is the process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction; corrosion is the act or process of destroying a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action; erosion is any of a group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface |
| Main Entry: | brassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, loud to the senses |
| Synonyms: | arrant, barefaced, blaring, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, overbold, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent |
| Main Entry: | cacophonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh sounding |
| Synonyms: | clinking, discordant, disharmonic, dissonant, grating, ill-sounding, immusical, inharmonious, jangly, jarring, noisy, raucous, sour, strident, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | crossing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway to traverse larger path |
| Synonyms: | bridge, cloverleaf, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, decussation, exchange, grade crossing, grating, gridiron, interchange, intersection, junction, loop, network, overpass, passage, screen, traversal, traverse, underpass |
| Main Entry: | discordant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not in harmony; conflicting |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, at odds, cacophonous, clashing, contradictory, contrarient, contrary, different, disagreeing, discrepant, dissonant, divergent, grating, harsh, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, jangling, jarring, on a sour note, opposite, quarreling, strident, uncongenial, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmixable |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, agreeing, concordant, cooperating, harmonious |
| Main Entry: | dissonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unharmonious |
| Synonyms: | cacophonic, cacophonous, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, grating, harsh, inharmonic, inharmonious, jangling, jarring, out of tune, raucous, strident, tuneless, unmelodious, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | concordant, harmonious |
| Main Entry: | friction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rubbing |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, agitation, attrition, chafing, erosion, filing, fretting, grating, grinding, irritation, massage, rasping, resistance, scraping, soreness, traction, trituration, wearing away |
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