strident

Meaning

Adj

1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
2. Grating or obnoxious.
3. Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
4. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.

Noun

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

Synonyms

shrill

vociferous

harsh

blatant

clamorous

sharp

clamant

raucous

loud

keen

noisy

high-pitched

trenchant

piercing

cutting

pointed

discordant

acerbic

loud-voiced

lurid

mordacious

acerb

sibilant

mordant

fricative

biting

grating

spirant

penetrating

squeaking

continuant

acute

perceptive

permeative

perspicacious

pervasive

poignant

pungent

quick-witted

racy

ready

rough

salty

showy

shriek

slick

smart

sounding

speaker

🔈

speaker system

spiky

squawker

squeaky

stiff

stridulous

tart

unrelenting

uproarious

violent

waspish

acuate

fulgurating

permeant

speaker unit

squawk box

intercom speaker

loudspeaker system

harsh voiced

tridont

acrid

acrimonious

beaked

bitter

blistering

boisterous

bold

bright

bristly

brusque

brutal

busy

caustic

clear

crisp

discriminative

dissonant

edged

fly

✈️

glaring

hard

high

hoarse

incisive

ingenious

keening

loudspeaker

📢

nasty

nipping

peaked

peaky

Translations

strident

estridente

scharf

kreischend

schel

durchdringend

doordringend

aigu

tiz

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/

Etymology

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