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jarring
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discordant |
| Synonyms: | clashing, grating, harsh, loud, rasping, shrill, unharmonious |
| Main Entry: | jar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shock, jolt |
| Synonyms: | agitate, bang, bounce, bump, clash, convulse, crash, disturb, grate, grind, hit, irritate, jerk, jiggle, jounce, jump, offend, quake, rasp, rattle, rock, shake, slam, thump, tremor, vibrate, wiggle, wobble |
| Main Entry: | jar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clash, disharmonize |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bicker, contend, disaccord, disagree, discompose, discord, grate, grind, interfere, irk, irritate, jangle, mismatch, nettle, oppose, outrage, quarrel, shock, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, harmonize |
| 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: | bumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
| Synonyms: | choppy, corrugated, jarring, jerky, knobby, lumpy, potholed, rugged, rutted, uneven |
| 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: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | concussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, shaking |
| Synonyms: | blast, blow, buffeting, bump, clash, clout, crack, crash, hit, impact, injury, jar, jarring, jolt, jolting, jounce, pounding, punch, shock, trauma |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, charley horse, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench |
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