stridentadj.n.
/ˈstrʌɪdənt/ 1.
a. Making a harsh, grating or creaking noise; loud and harsh, shrill.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > harsh and shrill (of sound) > making
yellingOE
yellinga1382
stridulous?1611
strident1656
stridulatory1838
stridulant1843
stridulating1861
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Strident, crashing or making a noise, creaking.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 458 ‘Brava! brava!’ old Steyne's strident voice was heard roaring over all the rest.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. iv. 76 Strident consonants evidently formed from the hiss of certain serpents.
1876 H. James Roderick Hudson xiii. 463 His strident accent.
1905 J. B. Firth Highways & Byways in Derbyshire xxvi. 394 The rush and rattle of strident wheels.
b. Phonetics. Of the articulation of a consonantal sound: characterized by friction that is comparatively turbulent. Also as n., a consonant articulated in this way.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [adjective] > spirant or continuant > fricative > type of
rill1912
strident1956
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > spirant or continuant > fricative > strident
strident1956
1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. 31 Strident/mellow: acoustically—higher intensity noise vs. lower intensity noise; genetically—rough-edged vs. smooth-edged.
1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. 42 Mellow constrictives, opposed to strident constrictives, or strident plosives (affricates) opposed to mellow plosives (stops proper) do not appear in child language before the emergence of the first liquid.
1965 Amer. Speech 40 9 T cannot follow a dental stop or S follow a strident (sibilant).
1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 329 Strident sounds are marked acoustically by greater noisiness than their nonstrident counterparts.
1976 Word 27 220 /s/..[and] /f/..also embody the Strident vs. Mellow distinction and are both +Strident.
2. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1876 F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 413 All this is not to be disposed of by a somewhat strident scorn in the name of a somewhat mysterious gospel.
1907 Athenæum 25 May 641/1 The..picture..is free from the strident colour which he has sometimes fallen into of late.
Derivatives
ˈstridently adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adverb] > harsh and shrill
stridulously1831
stridently1859
1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson (1862) 36 There lies the large blue quarto,..there the massive foolscap,..then the ivory stridently cuts it through.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson St. Ives (1898) xxvi. 194 The whole enclosure continuously and stridently resounded with the rain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
<
adj.n.1656