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 Definitions for strident: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Strident \Stri"dent\, a. [L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of
stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.]
Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident
voice." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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strident
adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar";
"strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant,
clamant, clamorous, vociferous]
2: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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94 Moby Thesaurus words for "strident":
absonant, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, atonal,
biting, bitter, blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, caustic,
clamorous, cracked, creaking, croaking, cutting, diaphonic,
disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant,
double-edged, edged, escharotic, fierce, flat, grating, gravelly,
grinding, guttural, harsh, hoarse, husky, immelodious, incisive,
inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, keen, loud, loudmouthed,
mordacious, mordant, multivocal, musicless, nonmelodious, off,
off-key, off-tone, openmouthed, out of pitch, out of tone,
out of tune, penetrating, piercing, poignant, rasping, raucous,
rigorous, rough, scathing, scraping, scratching, scratchy, severe,
sharp, shrill, sour, squawky, stabbing, stentorian, stertorous,
stinging, strident-voiced, stridulant, stridulous, stringent, tart,
trenchant, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical,
untunable, untuned, untuneful, vehement, violent, virulent,
vitriolic, vociferant
Related Sitesstrident: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
strident adj. Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant. See synonyms at loud , vociferous . [Latin strdns, strdent- , present participle of
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