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strident

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Adjective
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stri=dent

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective strident has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

stridenta. [L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.].
     Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

strident, adj. loud and harsh.

Derivative
stridency n. stridently adv.
Etymology
L stridere strident- creak

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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