strident

English

Etymology

From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪdˀnt]

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)

1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding

   The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.

2. 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.

3. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
   • 2003, November 6, “Stuart Cosgrove”, in Taylor slagging Saddam shame.‎^[2], Glasgow:

     Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.

Derived terms

• stridently
• stridency

Related terms

• stridor
• stridulous

 

Translations

loud, piercing

• Dutch: snerpend (nl)
• French: strident (fr), criard (fr)
• German: gellend (de)
• Irish: géarghlórach, géar, sianach

• Latin: strīdulus
• Maori: pākinakina, rengarenga, maioro, tioro
• Russian: пронзительный (ru) (pronzitelʹnyj), ре́зкий (ru) (rézkij)
• Spanish: estridente (es)
• Turkish: gıcırtılı (tr), tiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: прони́зливий (pronýzlyvyj)

Noun

strident (plural stridents)

1. (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.

   Hypernym: fricative

Translations

linguistics: one of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth

• Hungarian: érdes (hu)

References

• strident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “strident” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

Anagrams

• tridents

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁi.dɑ̃/

• Audio

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Adjective

strident (feminine singular stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)

1. strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound

Further reading

• “strident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tridents

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Latin

Verb

strīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of strīdō