English-Thai Dictionary

strident

ADJ ดังลั่น  ดัง แสบ แก้วหู  harsh loud shrill dang-lan

 

strident

ADJ แข็งกร้าว  เสียง ห้าว  hoarse raucous kang-kao

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STRIDENT

Stri "dent, a. Etym: [L. stridens, -entis, p.pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise. ]

 

Defn: Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice. " Thackeray.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

strident

stri dent |ˈstrīdnt ˈstraɪdnt | ▶adjective loud and harsh; grating: his voice had become increasingly sharp, almost strident. • presenting a point of view, esp. a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way: public pronouncements on the crisis became less strident. • Phonetics another term for sibilant. DERIVATIVES stri den cy noun, stri dent ly adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin strident- ‘creaking, ’ from the verb stridere.

 

Oxford Dictionary

strident

stri |dent |ˈstrʌɪd (ə )nt | ▶adjective 1 (of a sound ) loud and harsh; grating: his voice had become increasingly strident. • Phonetics another term for sibilant. 2 presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively forceful way: public pronouncements on the crisis became less strident. DERIVATIVES stridency noun, stridently adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin strident- ‘creaking ’, from the verb stridere.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

strident

strident adjective a strident voice interrupted the consultation: harsh, raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, loud, shrill, screeching, piercing, ear-piercing. ANTONYMS soft.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

strident

strident adjective a strident voice interrupted the consultation: harsh, raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, loud, stentorian, shrill, screeching, piercing, ear-piercing; unmelodious, unmusical, discordant, dissonant, unharmonious; rare stridulous, stridulant, stridulatory, stentorious. ANTONYMS soft, dulcet.

 

French Dictionary

strident

strident , ente adj. adjectif Se dit d ’un son aigu et perçant. : Une voix trop stridente. Note Orthographique strid e nt.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

strident

stri dent /stráɪd (ə )nt /形容詞 1 〈音 声が 〉キーキーいう, 耳ざわりな, かん高い .2 (人を不快にするほど )自己主張の強い, 執拗 （しつよう ）な ; (自己主張の )声高な .～ly 副詞