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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]
2: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident]
3: being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism" [syn: strident, shrill]
4: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous, strident]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin strident-, stridens, present participle of stridere, strid?re to make a harsh noise Date: circa 1656 characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound <a strident voice>; also commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality <strident slogans> Synonyms: see loud, vociferous • stridently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. loud and harsh. Derivatives: stridency n. stridently adv. Etymology: L stridere strident- creak

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you use strident to describe someone or the way they express themselves, you mean that they make their feelings or opinions known in a very strong way that perhaps makes people uncomfortable. ...the unnecessarily strident tone of the President's remarks... ADJ [disapproval] 2. If a voice or sound is strident, it is loud, harsh, and unpleasant to listen to. She tried to laugh, and the sound was harsh and strident... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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