strident
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪdˀnt]
strident
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
- The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
- Grating or obnoxious
- The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
- French: strident, criard
- German: gellend
- Russian: пронзительный
- Spanish: estridente
strident (plural stridents)
- (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
- Hypernyms: fricative
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