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strident - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)

• Loud; shrill, piercing, high- pitched; rough -sounding.
  • ✤ The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
  • ✤ But as they were upon going forth, a trumpet was sounded without, three strident blasts.¹
• Grating or obnoxious.
  • ✤ The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
  • ✤ If Demandt’s essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.²
• Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
  • ✤ Coordinate term: vociferous
  • ✤ The impact of [Jimmy Carter’s] anger [at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan] on his attitude is confirmed by the moderation in his attitude that occurred. Once the president’s anger began to subside, he became less strident in his pronouncements and more uncertain of Soviet motives.³
• (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
  • ✤ Under David Taylor’s stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.⁴

Noun

strident (plural stridents)

• (linguistics) One of a class of s -like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
  • ✤ Hypernym: fricative

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪ.dn̩t]
  • Audio (California): 🔊
• (Australian) IPA: /ˈstɹɑe.dənt/, [ˈstɹɑe̯.dn̩t]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹɑe̯.dn̩t]

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Footnotes

1. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7: ↩

2. 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism ‎${}^{[1]}$, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182: ↩

3. 2019 March 8, Dan Caldwell, Diplomacy, Force, And Leadership: Essays In Honor Of Alexander L. George, Routledge, →ISBN: ↩

4. 2003 November 6, Stuart Cosgrove, “Taylor slagging Saddam shame.”, in Daily Record ‎${}^{[2]}$, Glasgow, archived from the original on 12 November 2012: ↩

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