Word Meanings - HUBBUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUBBUB)

• Ado
• Hubbub
• commotion
• fuse
• excitement
• Babel
• confusion
• clamor
• jargon
• din
• discord
• clang
• Clamor
• Contention
• contentiousness
• squabble
• tumult
• hubbub
• noise
• uproar
• outcry
• obloquy

Related words: (words related to HUBBUB)

• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• JARGON
  A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
• UPROAR
  Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
• HUBBUB
  A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.
• CLANGOR
  A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• CONTENTION
  1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• JARGONELLE
  A variety of pear which ripens early.
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• SQUABBLE
  1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel. 2. To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.