stentorian

American  

[sten-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] / stɛnˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- /

adjective

1. very loud or powerful in sound.

   a stentorian voice.

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stentorian British  

/ stɛnˈtɔːrɪən /

adjective

1. (of the voice, etc) uncommonly loud

   stentorian tones

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Other Word Forms

• stentorianly adverb
• unstentorian adjective

Etymology

Origin of stentorian

First recorded in 1600–10; Stentor + -ian

Example Sentences

But the graying signal caller still had something left in the glove compartment, and if you think I typed that while speaking in a stentorian John Facenda voice, I absolutely did.

From The Wall Street Journal

Much of the solo vocal writing is stentorian and talky, moving the story along.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.

From Seattle Times

He is perhaps best known for his assortment of bow ties, his stentorian voice and his ability to deliver a 20-minute sermon without notes.

From Washington Times

The tenor Russell Thomas was smoothly stentorian if bland as Otello; perhaps, without the journey of the first three acts, this half-hour excerpt is fated to come across as anticlimactic.

From New York Times