strident
English
Etymology
From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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
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Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
loud, piercing
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Noun
strident (plural stridents)
- (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
- Hypernym: fricative
References
- “strident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “strident”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
strident (feminine stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)
- strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound
Further reading
- “strident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) strīdent
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