Strident: alternatives and connections

Alt. of Cacophonious

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Alt. of Cacophonious

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Alt. of Cacophonious

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Alt. of Cacophonious

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

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Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

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Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

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Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

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Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.

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Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.

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Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.

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Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered throu…

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Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.

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Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.

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Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

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A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, exce…

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Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.

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