strident :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh

adj. full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds; "a noisy cafeteria"; "a small noisy dog"

adj. unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"

clamant, blatant, clamorous, clamourous, vociferous

adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"

thunderous, thundery, deafening, earsplitting, roaring

adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

dissonant, unresolved

adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved

incompatible

adj. not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"

vocal

adj. full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children"

cackly, squawky

adj. like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg

guttural, croaking, croaky

adj. like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs"

discordant, jarring

adj. making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk"

grating, rasping, rough, gravelly, harsh, raspy

adj. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"

husky, gruff, hoarse

adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

jangling, jangly

adj. like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"

shrill, piercing

adj. loud and sharp; "the piercing shriek of sirens"

rending

adj. resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"

screaming, shrieking

adj. emitting or resembling loud piercing sounds like screams: "a screaming fury of sound"; "shrieking winds"

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