strident

Meaning of strident

noun

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

adjective
  1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
    The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
  2. Grating or obnoxious
    The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
  3. Vigorous; making strides

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Hyphenation of strident

stri-dent

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • strident is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

strident synonyms

Meaning blatant:

blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous

Meaning fricative:

fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant

Meaning shrill:

shrill

Meaning raucous:

raucous

Translation of strident

Anagrams of strident

tridents

Words that rhyme with strident

Dent, dent, Decadent, Friadent, cadent, decadent, intercadent, noncadent, nondecadent, overdecadent, semidecadent, undecadent, waddent, antecedent, cedent, credent, decedent, excedent, exedent, intercedent, noncredent, nonprecedent, precedent, proprecedent, recedent, retrocedent, sedent, succedent, Occident, President, PreviDent, Trident, accident, ambident, assident, bident, coincident, confident, copresident, coresident, decident, diffident, disoccident, dissident, divident, duplicident, eident, evident, hyperconfident, ident

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