Synonyms for jarring
jar·ring

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1. jarringadjective

   making or causing a harsh and irritating sound

   "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk"

   Antonyms:
   euphonious, euphonous

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1. jarringadjective

   Synonyms:
   discordant, harsh

2. jarringadjective

   Synonyms:
   wrangling, disagreeing, at variance

3. jarringadjective

   Synonyms:
   conflicting, incompatible, inconsistent

4. jarringnoun

   Synonyms:
   clashing, collision

5. jarringnoun

   Synonyms:
   shaking, agitation, jar

6. jarringnoun

   Synonyms:
   quarrel, dispute, altercation, bickering, wrangling

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1. List of paraphrases for "jarring":

   discordant, mismatched

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1. Jerrold Mundis:

   I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

2. Maddie Kristell:

   I think it's somewhat jarring to a lot of people in the area, considering we had a considerable dry stretch this summer where it didn't rain for a while and we had the heat wave as well, so kind of bouncing between opposite ends of the spectrum this year, so it's been pretty dynamic for folks in the area.

3. Passenger Megan Vandervest:

   We kind of thought maybe the car behind us had slightly come off or something like that, but it ended up being much, much worse and a lot more jarring to see when we got off the train, the car behind ours was slightly off and then the one behind that was kind of in between two sets of railroad tracks, and the one behind that one had like completely tipped over and fallen over and that was kind of the most shocking part.

4. Jack White:

   No matter how much I tried to make a sequence out of the songs, it just seemed like you were taking a Miles Davis record and putting it in the middle of an Iron Maiden record, it had an' Oh, that's interestingly jarring thing' to it, but it wasn't breathing or flowing.

5. Pamela McPherson:

   When you go through that metal detector and those series of locked doors, and then you see children playing and women walking around carrying young children, it's just sort of a surreal experience, i don't think you can experience that without questioning,' Why are these children in a secure facility ? Why are these children in what used to be an adult prison ?' It's jarring.