Thesaurus: strident

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1. a. Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
2. adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
3. adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
4. adj. being sharply insistent on being heard
5. adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh
6. Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.
7. Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A stridentvoice." Thackeray.
8. j:100 s. being sharply insistent on being heard