strident

[ strahyd-nt ]

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adjective

making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.

Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.

Origin of strident

1650–60; <Latin strīdent- (stem of strīdēns), present participle of strīdēre to make a harsh noise; see -ent

Other words from strident

stridence, stri·den·cy, noun
stri·dent·ly, adverb
non·stri·dent, adjective
o·ver·stri·dence, noun
o·ver·stri·den·cy, noun
o·ver·stri·dent, adjective
o·ver·stri·dent·ly, adverb
un·stri·dent, adjective
un·stri·dent·ly, adverb

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How to use strident in a sentence

Turkey stridently contests that number, as well as the term “genocide.”
Turkish Pianist Fazil Say Found Guilty of Insulting Islam | Mike Giglio | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Of course, not all feminists are so stridently opposed to niqab.
Women Fight Back: Don't Ban the Veil! | Sheema Khan | April 8, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
But at the same instant a carefully laid rifle, from a canoe, barked stridently.
Cursed | George Allan England
And again water rushed, and something was rolled stridently across the marble floor.
The Devourers | Annie Vivanti Chartres
Only outside, in the wayside bushes, the cicadas chirped stridently and passionately; and the blood throbbed noisily in her ears.
Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity | Alexandre Kuprin

Campbell had selected a table near the back curtain, and now stridently ordered one of the Malay waiters to bring gin.
The Door into Infinity | Edmond Hamilton
A gong, beaten by the owner of the Bird Cage, rang out stridently into the quiet night to rally sleeping citizens.
Oh, You Tex! | William Macleod Raine

British Dictionary definitions for strident

strident

/ (ˈstraɪdənt) /

adjective

(of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound
urgent, clamorous, or vociferous: strident demands

Origin of strident

C17: from Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound

Derived forms of strident

stridence or stridency, noun
stridently, adverb

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