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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry;
- Example: "blatant radios"
- Example: "a clamorous uproar"
- Example: "strident demands"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "strident demands"
- Example: "shrill criticism"
[syn: strident, shrill]

4. unpleasantly loud and harsh;
[syn: raucous, strident]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

strident 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "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