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adjective
- 1. (of a sound) loud and harsh; grating: "his voice had become increasingly strident"
- 2. presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively forceful way: "public pronouncements on the crisis became less strident"
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STRIDENT definition: 1. A strident sound is loud, unpleasant, and rough: 2. expressing or expressed in forceful…. Learn more.
If you use strident to describe someone or the way they express themselves, you mean that they make their feelings or opinions known in a very strong way that perhaps makes people uncomfortable.
The meaning of STRIDENT is characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound; also : commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality. How to use strident in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Strident.
adjective. making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges. having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.
STRIDENT meaning: 1. A strident sound is loud, unpleasant, and rough: 2. expressing or expressed in forceful…. Learn more.
Something that's strident is loud, grating, and obnoxious. Your roommate's strident laughter as he watches cartoons late into the night might inspire you to buy a pair of ear plugs.
1. Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill: a strident voice. See Synonyms at vociferous. 2. Forcefully assertive or severely critical: strident rhetoric. [Latin strīdēns, strīdent-, present participle of strīdēre, to make harsh sounds, ultimately of imitative origin .] stri′dence, stri′den·cy n.
Definition of strident adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking. strident insects. strident hinges. 2. having a shrill, irritating quality or character. a strident tone in his writings. 3. Linguistics (in distinctive feature analysis)
STRIDENT definition: 1. expressed in a strong way: 2. loud and unpleasant: . Learn more.
