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stri⋅dent

  [strahyd-nt]
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–adjective
1. making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
2. having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.
3. Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
Origin:
1650–60; < L strīdent- (s. of strīdēns), prp. of strīdēre to make a harsh noise; see -ent

Related forms:
stridence, stri⋅den⋅cy, noun
stri⋅dent⋅ly, adverb
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stri·dent   (strīd'nt)   
adj.  Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant. See Synonyms at loud, vociferous.

[Latin strīdēns, strīdent-, present participle of strīdēre, to make harsh sounds, ultimately of imitative origin.]
stri'dence, stri'den·cy n., stri'dent·ly adv.
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Strident

Stri"dent\, a. [L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.] Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." --Thackeray.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : strident
Spanish: alegre, vivo, vistoso,
German: bunt,
Japanese: 派手な
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strident 
1656, from Fr. strident, from L. stridentem (nom. stridens), prp. of stridere "utter an inarticulate sound, grate, screech," possibly of imitative origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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