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    stri·dent
    [ˈstrīdnt]
    adjective
    strident (adjective)
    1. loud and harsh; grating:
      "his voice had become increasingly sharp, almost strident"
      • presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way:
        "public pronouncements on the crisis became less strident"
      • phonetics
        another term for sibilant
    Origin
    mid 17th century: from Latin strident- ‘creaking’, from the verb stridere.
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    adjective
    1. loud and harsh; grating:
      harsh
      raucous
      rough
      grating
      rasping
      jarring
      loud
      stentorian
      shrill
      screeching
      piercing
      ear-piercing
      unmusical
      discordant
      dissonant
      stridulant
      stridulatory
      unmelodious
      unharmonious
      stridulous
      stentorious
      Opposite:
      soft
      dulcet
       
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      The meaning of STRIDENT is characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound; also : commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality. How to use strident in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Strident.

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      strident insects; strident hinges. a strident tone in his writings. Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.

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      2. urgent, clamorous, or vociferous: strident demands. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 1. harsh in sound; grating: strident voices. 2. having an obtrusive, insistent character: strident opinions.

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      As it appears here, the chord is strident, suggesting a link to the world outdoors. Or, affronts to dignity may produce strident reactions that harm patient/family-professional relationships and impair healthcare goals. These features were vocalic, consonantal, compact, diffuse, low, stressed, nasal, continuous, voiced, sharp, and strident.

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