Synonyms for Strident

Synonyms for "strident" (132 found)

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Closest matches (27)

Adjective(8 words)

raucous shrill aggressive blatant clamant clamorous confrontational continuant

absonant acid acidulous acrid acrimonious astringent atonal biting bitter blatant boisterous brassy cacophonous caustic clamorous cracked creaking croaking

Noun(1 words)

cawing

Strong matches (39)

cutting diaphonic disconsonant discordant disharmonic disharmonious dissonantdouble edgeddouble-edged dry edged escharotic fierce flat grating gravelly grinding guttural harsh high

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hoarse husky immelodious incisive inharmonic inharmonious jarring keen loud loudmouthed mordacious mordant multivocal musicless

Adjective(4 words)

earsplitting forceful fricative harsh

Noun(1 words)

hacking

Related words (66)

noisy nonmelodious obstreperous offoff keyoff-key off-tone openmouthedout of pitchout of toneout of tuneoutspoken penetrating piercing poignant rasping raucous resonant rigorous rough

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Adjective(1 words)

noisy

Adjective(10 words)

piercing critiqueraspier screechier screechiest screechy shriller shrillest sibilant spirant vociferous

Noun(2 words)

screeching shrilling

Verb(1 words)

shrilled

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

2 entries

sound qualitytone

More specific

4 entries

diatribe polemic rasp shrillness

Collocations

6 entries

strident alarmstrident critiquestrident demandstrident rhetoricstrident tonestrident voice

Inflections

2 entries

more stridentmost strident

Derivations

2 entries

stridency stridently

similar

5 entries

cacophonic cacophonous imperative noisy soft

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I was surprised, therefore, when, one morning in June, as I sat reading the British Medical Journal after breakfast, I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion's voice.

Source: tatoeba (6979717)

Tom's voice is strident.

Source: tatoeba (11240493)

I don't like their music; I find the singer's voice strident.

Source: tatoeba (11240495)

"Their music is strident and grating." "The word is 'dissonant.'"

Source: tatoeba (11240496)

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