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”, in Taylor slagging Saddam shame.[2], Glasgow:
- Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.
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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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “strident” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strident (feminine singular 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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
strīdent
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