strident

stri·dent

S0808100 (strīd′nt)adj.1. Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill: a strident voice. See Synonyms at vociferous.2. Forcefully assertive or severely critical: strident rhetoric.

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[Latin strīdēns, strīdent-, present participle of strīdēre, to make harsh sounds, ultimately of imitative origin.]

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stri′dence, stri′den·cy n.stri′dent·ly adv.

strident

(ˈstraɪdənt) adj1. (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound2. urgent, clamorous, or vociferous: strident demands. [C17: from Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound] ˈstridence, ˈstridency n ˈstridently adv

stri•dent

(ˈstraɪd nt)

adj. 1. harsh in sound; grating: strident voices. 2. having an obtrusive, insistent character: strident opinions. [1650–60; < Latin strīdent-, s. of strīdēns, present participle of strīdēre to make a harsh noise; see -ent] stri′dence, stri′den•cy, n. stri′dent•ly, adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	strident - conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"clamant, clamorous, vociferous, blatantnoisy - full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds; "a noisy cafeteria"; "a small noisy dog"
	2.	strident - of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirantsoft - (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
	3.	strident - being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism"shrillimperative - requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
	4.	strident - unpleasantly loud and harshraucouscacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten

strident

adjective1. forceful, offensive, hostile, belligerent, pugnacious, destructive, quarrelsome the unnecessarily strident tone of the President's remarks2. harsh, jarring, grating, clashing, screeching, raucous, shrill, rasping, jangling, discordant, clamorous, unmusical, stridulant, stridulous She tried to laugh, and the sound was harsh and strident.
harsh soft, quiet, sweet, gentle, soothing, mellow, harmonious, mellifluous, dulcet

strident

adjective1. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:dry, grating, harsh, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, rough, scratchy, squawky.2. Offensively loud and insistent:blatant, boisterous, clamorous, obstreperous, vociferous.Informal: loudmouthed.

Translations

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