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Adjective strident has 4 senses

• strident(s = adj.all) blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous - conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
Derived forms noun stridence₁, noun stridency₁

• strident(s = adj.all) continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant - of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then'); Array
• strident(s = adj.all) shrill - being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism"
• strident(s = adj.all) raucous - unpleasantly loud and harsh; Array
Derived form noun stridence₁

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THESAURUS

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

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