strident

strident is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
2. adjective. unpleasantly loud and harsh

   Synonyms: raucous

3. adjective. being sharply insistent on being heard

   "strident demands"

   "shrill criticism"

   Synonyms: shrill

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

   Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant

5. adjective. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

   "blatant radios"

   "a clamorous uproar"

   Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous

Synonyms

raucous, shrill, continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant, blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in strident:

tridents

Common word forms

stridently

Words from these letters

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