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stri·dent
(strīd′nt)adj.
1. Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill: a strident voice. See Synonyms at vociferous.
2. Forcefully assertive or severely critical: strident rhetoric.
[Latin strīdēns, strīdent-, present participle of strīdēre, to make harsh sounds, ultimately of imitative origin.]
stri′dence, stri′den·cy n.
stri′dent·ly adv.
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strident
(ˈstraɪdənt)adj
1. (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound
2. urgent, clamorous, or vociferous: strident demands.
[C17: from Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound]
ˈstridence, ˈstridency n
ˈstridently adv
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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.
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Adj. | 1. | ![]() noisy - 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') soft - (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" imperative - requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" | |
4. | strident - unpleasantly loud and harsh cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten |
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strident
adjective
1. forceful, offensive, hostile, belligerent, pugnacious, destructive, quarrelsome the unnecessarily strident tone of the President's remarks
2. 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
harsh soft, quiet, sweet, gentle, soothing, mellow, harmonious, mellifluous, dulcet
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strident
adjective1. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
2. Offensively loud and insistent:
Informal: loudmouthed.
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[ˈstraɪdənt] ADJ [voice, sound] → estridente; [colour, person] → chillón, estridente; [protest] → fuerte, ruidosoCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[ˈstraɪd/ənt] adj (sound) → stridente, stridulo/a; (voice) → stridulo/a; (protest) → energico/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995