strident
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
- The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
- Grating or obnoxious
- The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
- 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
- If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
- 2003 November 6, Stuart Cosgrove, “Taylor slagging Saddam shame.”, in Daily Record[2], Glasgow, archived from the original on 12 November 2012:
- Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
loud, piercing
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Noun[edit]
strident (plural stridents)
- (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
- Hypernym: fricative
Translations[edit]
linguistics: one of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth
References[edit]
- “strident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “strident”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strident (feminine stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)
- strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound
Further reading[edit]
- “strident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
strīdent
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French strident, from Latin stridens.
Adjective[edit]
strident m or n (feminine singular stridentă, masculine plural stridenți, feminine and neuter plural stridente)
Declension[edit]
Declension of strident
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | strident | stridentă | stridenți | stridente | ||
definite | stridentul | stridenta | stridenții | stridentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | strident | stridente | stridenți | stridente | ||
definite | stridentului | stridentei | stridenților | stridentelor |
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