clamorous
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
clamorous
- Of or pertaining to clamor.
- (of sounds) Of great intensity.
- Synonyms: loud
- a clamorous fire alarm
- circa 1593 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,
- […] he took the bride about the neck,
- And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack
- That at the parting all the church did echo.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 200,
- […] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;
- (of people, animals or things) Creating a loud noise.
- Synonyms: noisy
- clamorous trumpets
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene 2,
- The clamorous owl that nightly hoots
- (of emotions or feelings) Expressed loudly.
- 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42,
- We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 2, Chapter 18, p. 226,
- […] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
- 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42,
- (of times, places, events or activities) Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise.
- Synonyms: noisy
- a clamorous market
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 4, p. 49,
- Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor
- Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, Chapter 11, p. 425,
- […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.
- (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
- Synonyms: vociferous
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (play), Act I, Scene 4,
- Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
- Rather than make unprofited return.
- 1656, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of […] James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and […] King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, London, p. 418,
- […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, Part 1, p. 148,
- The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (novel), London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 2, p. 58,
- They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.
- (of sounds) Of great intensity.
- Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
- Synonyms: garish, gaudy, loud
- 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, New York: Avon, 1980, Chapter 6, p. 376,
- She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.
- 2015, John Irving, Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 9, p. 99,
- It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.
- Portuguese: clamoroso
- Spanish: clamoroso
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