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Definition: Strident |
StridentAdjective1. Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob". 2. Unpleasantly loud and harsh. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strident" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Etymology: Strident \Stri"dent\, adjective. [Latin expression stridens, -entis, present participle of stridere to make grating or creaking noise.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: StridentSynonyms: blatant (adj), clamant (adj), clamorous (adj), raucous (adj), vociferous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Strident |
| English words defined with "strident": blare, blaring, blast ♦ cacophony, clamor ♦ din ♦ euphonious ♦ garishness, gaudiness, grinding ♦ stridently. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "strident": Stridulous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Strident" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (brittle, ear-splitting, shrill, strident, strong), Romanian (clangorous, grating, harsh, high, loud, shrill, strident, stridently). |
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 | Alert; shrill; acute; argute; blaring; blatant; cacophonous; clanging; clangorous; deafening; discordant; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; harsh; high; metallic; noisy; penetrating; piercing; piping; raucous; screeching; sharp; strident; thin; treble. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Another newspaper reported that more than 2,000 persons have died in sectarian violence since 1981. Sectarian violence, which had decreased markedly after the October 1999 coup, rose steadily during the first 9 months of the year, but decreased again after September 11. On January 28, Sheikhul Hadih Maulana Inayatullah of Karachi was killed by six unidentified assailants who intercepted his van while he was traveling to his school, Jamia Farooqia, a Sunni Muslim seminary known for its strident anti-Shi'a Muslim teachings. (references) |
Economic History | Thailand | Despite the election campaign's slightly more strident populist and nationalist rhetoric, the Thaksin government is unlikely to embark on programs that will significantly alter Thailand's traditional openness to foreign investment and foreign participation in its economy. (references) |
Malaysia | The United States has maintained friendly relations with Malaysia since its independence in 1957. Despite sometimes strident rhetoric, the U.S. and Malaysia have a record of cooperation in many areas, including trade and investment, defense, counter-terrorism, and counter-narcotics. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | On January 28, Sheikhul Hadih Maulana Inayatullah of Karachi was killed by six unidentified assailants who intercepted his van while he was traveling to his school, Jamia Farooqia, a Sunni Muslim seminary known for its strident anti-Shi'a Muslim teachings. (references) |
Political Economy | Croatia | HDZ leaders remain strident critics of the government, and although they are not now a threat to the coalition, the party did better than expected in the May 2001 local elections, winning more seats in local-level assemblies than any other party. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Strident" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strident" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 218 | 20,478 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "strident": melancholy-then-strident. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
strident | 3 |
front shadow strident | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "strident"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që të gërvisht veshin, kërcitës (creaky, rattling, squeaky), i çjerrë (cracked, lacerate, piping, rent, throaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strong, trenchant), عالي النغمة, صار (creaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, trenchant), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strong, tangy, trenchant), пронизващ (cutting, harsh, keen, raw, searching, thrilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 刺耳 (grating, shrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrzavý (creaky, grating, squeaky), pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, incisive, keen, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, pungent, screechy, shrill, sweeping), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, tart, tough, trenchant), hlasitý (load, loud, lusty, vocal), hašteřivý (argumentative, cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, querulous), řezavý (keen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strident delivery (strident delivery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schelle weergave (strident delivery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گوش خراش (Loud), دارای صدای مزاحم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | strident (strong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | streitbar (valiant, warlike), schrill (brash, brittle, garish, jarring, sharp, shrill, shrilly), kreischend (jarring, screaming, screeching, shrieking, squawking), grell (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, blazing, dazzling, flashy, garish, garishly, gaudily, gaudy, glaring, harsh, harshly, loud, loudly, lurid, luridly, penetratingly, piercing, raw, sharp, showy, shrill, violent), durchdringend (biting, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, penetratively, permeating, pervading, pervasive, pervasively, piercing, piercingly, pungent, searching, searchingly, sharp, shrewd, tangy, thrilling, through, thru). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρίγκοσ, τραχύφωνοσ (harsh-voiced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחריש אוז ים (noisy), שורק (sibilant), צורמ י (grating, harsh, raucous), צרח י (screamy, shrieking, shrill), צרצר י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csikorgó (creaking, crunchy, grating, jarring, squeaky), fülhasogató (ear-splitting, grating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stridulo (grating, harsh, sharp, shrill, squeaky), stridente (grating, harsh, jarring, rasping, screeching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거슬리" (Jarred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | identstray estridente (clangorous, piping, pipy, screechy, shrill). (various references) strident (clangorous, grating, harsh, high, loud, shrill, stridently), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, subtle, thrilling, touching), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references) скрипучий (creaky, crunchy, grating, rasping, scrannel, scratchy, screechy, squeaky), резкий (abrupt, acrid, acute, bitter, bluffy, brusque, crusty, curt, harsh, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, screechy, sharp, short, shrewd, tart). (various references) stridentni, piskav (high pitched, piping, screaming, screeching, shrill, treble), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strong, trenchant, twang). (various references) estridente (blatant, brassy, harsh, jangling, loud, raucous, screaming, shrill, unpleasant-sounding). (various references) skärande (cutting, incisive, jarring), kärv (acerbic, astringent, bitter, harch, harsh), gäll (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, high pitched, jarring, lurid, sharp, shrill). (various references) tiz (clear, high pitched, high-toned, sharp, shrill), rahatsız edici (annoying, besetting, disturbing, fraught, haunting, hot, inconvenient, irritant, irritating, noisy, pesky, plaguesome, rough, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, worrying), gıcırdayan (creaking, gnashing, grating, scratchy), ciyak ciyak, cırlak (crude, grating, piping, ragged, screeching, shrewish, shrill, squaller). (various references) скрипучий (creaking, creaky, grating, rasping, scratchy, squeaky). (various references) the thé (shrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acerbam, acerbi, acerbo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strident": stridently. (additional references) | |
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"Strident" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: srident, srudent, stirdent, strideny, stridetn, strigent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strident" (pronounced strī"dunt) |
| 7 | -t r ī" d u n t | trident. |
| 4 | -d u n t | abundant, accident, antecedent, antioxidant, ardent, ascendant, attendant, coincident, confident, corespondent, correspondent, decadent, decedent, defendant, dependent, descendant, descendent, despondent, discordant, dissident, evident, imprudent, incident, independent, interdependent, mordant, nonresident, overconfident, oxidant, pendant, precedent, provident, prudent, redundant, resident, resplendent, respondent, retardant, rodent, student, superintendent, transcendent, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tridents. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: dentist, distent, retints, stinted, stinter, tinders, tinters, trident. | |
-2 letters: diners, direst, driest, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, niters, nitres, retint, rident, rinsed, sinter, sitten, sitter, snider, stride, teinds, tinder, tinted, tinter, titers, titres, trends, triens, trined, trines, triste. | |
-3 letters: deist, dents, diets, diner, dines, dints, dirts, dites, drest, dries, edits, inert, inset, inter, neist. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: dentistry, denturist, intrusted, transited, trendiest. | |
+2 letters: antitrades, attainders, denturists, detriments, detritions, distincter, instructed, interdicts, interested, reinstated, straitened, stridently, threnodist. | |
+3 letters: adventurist, constricted, dentistries, destructing, destruction, determinist, detractions, disinterest, disportment, enteritides, intersected, interstrand, irredentist, outsprinted, outstridden, retinitides, rotundities, spendthrift, tearstained, threnodists, transmitted, undistorted, wintertides. | |
+4 letters: administrate, adventurists, densitometer, densitometry, deportations, destructions, determinants, determinists, detrainments, detrimentals, deuterations, disintegrate, disinterests, disinterment, disorientate, disportments, dissertating, dissertation, ditransitive, endometritis, extraditions, incertitudes, ingratitudes, instrumented, interdictors, interestedly, interstadial, interstrands, intertwisted, introspected, irredentists, orotundities, periodontist, predestinate, reductionist, reinstituted, retardations, spendthrifts, straightened, stringhalted, tradescantia, trendsetting, trepidations, understating, undistracted, uninstructed, uninterested, unrestricted, unstratified. | |
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