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adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh

fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident

adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous

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

noisy

adj. attracting attention by showiness or bright colors; "a noisy sweater"

blaring, blasting

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

blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous

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

deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery

adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

unresolved, dissonant

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"

loud

adj. characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery

adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

raucous, strident

adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh

helter-skelter, pell-mell

adj. with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"

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

croaky, guttural

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

jarring

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

grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy

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

gruff, hoarse, husky

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

adj. of colors that are bright and gaudy; "a shrill turquoise"

rending, ripping, splitting

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"

palatal, palatalized, palatalised

adj. produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')

boisterous, obstreperous

adj. aggressively noisy: "obstreperous children"

abuzz, buzzing

adj. noisy like the sound of a bee; "the room was abuzz over the latest scandal"

clangorous, clanging

adj. having a loud resonant metallic sound; "the clangorous locomotive works"; "a clanging gong"

clattery

adj. a rattling sound as of hard things striking together; "a clattery typewriter"; "the clattery sound of dishes"

clinking

adj. like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped

crackling, snapping

adj. having a series of sharp noises as of a wood fire burning: "wished to get out of hearing of the crackling shots"

creaky, screaky

adj. having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs"

hissing

adj. like a sustained `s': "`hissing' is the sound a snake makes"

jingling, jingly

adj. having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells"

rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious

adj. uncontrollably noisy

reedy, wheezy

adj. having a tone of a reed instrument

stertorous

adj. of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

swishy

adj. resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle; "swishing windshield wipers"; "a swishy skirt"

tinkling, tinkly

adj. like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"

tinny

adj. thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"

whining

adj. long and high-pitched like a whine or plaintive crying

whirring

adj. like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings

quiet

adj. free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet"

stilly

adj. (poetic) still or calm; "in the stilly night"

soft-spoken

adj. having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh; "she was always soft-spoken"

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