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- a jarring sight, sound, or experience is so different or unexpected that it has a strong and unpleasant effect on something or someone: a jarring cry / chord
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a jarring sight, sound, or experience is so different or unexpected that it has a strong and unpleasant effect on something or someone:
- English (US)
JARRING meaning: 1. a jarring sight, sound, or experience is...
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- English (US)
A loud, abrupt, shocking noise is jarring. If the sound of your telephone ringing is jarring, it will make you jump.
having a harshly unpleasant or disturbing effect on one’s nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The news of my cancer diagnosis was both jarring and devastating. (of sounds) producing a harshly unpleasant effect; discordant: I’d much rather wake up to a gentle vibration than to the jarring sound of my phone alarm.
I would say that a jarring sound might startle you, while a grating sound would irritate you. Also, jarring sounds tend to be uncomfortably loud (like the jarring noise of a fire alarm); while grating sounds can be very soft (like a mouse scratching behind a wall, or the constant drip of a leaky faucet).
Cacophony refers to a harsh, jarring, discordant sound or effect created by the use of words. In literature and rhetoric, cacophony is intentionally used as a rhetorical device to convey an unsettling, unharmonious mood or tone through the combination of words and sounds employed.
To cause shaking or vibrations: The ride over the old road was jarring. b. To shake or vibrate from an impact or impacts: "The gallery jarred with a quick, heavy tramp" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
The meaning of JARRING is having a harshly concussive, disagreeable, or discordant effect. How to use jarring in a sentence.
