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/ˈklæŋ(ɡ)ə/ · noun
(British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din..
1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love, And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]
H. G. Wells' stark short story "The Cone" tells of a man's macabre revenge worked out in the clangour of a great steel works and railway lines and sidings.
It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.
Use clangour when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clangour means (British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din..
Common synonyms include clash, crash, clang, jangle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love, And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
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