Strident

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant. See Synonyms at loud, vociferous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
  • adj. Grating or obnoxious
  • adj. Vigorous; making strides
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Creaking; harsh; grating.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
  • adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
  • adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh
  • adj. being sharply insistent on being heard
    • Equivalent
    noisy    soft    cacophonous    cacophonic    imperative   
    Form
    stridently    stridency   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grating    shrill    harsh    creaking   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    trident   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    discordant    high-pitched    guttural    ear-splitting    anguished   
     
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