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vo·cif·er·ous    Audio Help   [voh-sif-er-uhs] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.crying out noisily; clamorous.
2.characterized by or uttered with vociferation: a vociferous manner of expression.

[Origin: 1605–15; vocifer(ant) + -ous]

vo·cif·er·ous·ly, adverb
vo·cif·er·ous·ness, noun

1. loud, noisy, vocal, uproarious, boisterous.
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vo·cif·er·ous    Audio Help   (vō-sĭf'ər-əs)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry.

vo·cif'er·ous·ly adv., vo·cif'er·ous·ness n.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud. Vociferous suggests a noisy outcry, as of vehement protest: vociferous complaints.
Blatant connotes coarse or vulgar noisiness: "Up rose a blatant Radical" (Walter Bagehot).
Boisterous implies unrestrained noise, tumult, and often rowdiness: boisterous youths.
Strident stresses offensive harshness, shrillness, or discordance: a legislator with a strident voice.
Something clamorous is both vociferous and sustained: a clamorous uproar.

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vociferous 
1611, from L. vociferari "to shout, yell," from vox (gen. vocis) "voice" + root of ferre "to carry" (see infer). A noun form, vociferation, is recorded from c.1400.

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vociferous

adjective
conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant

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Vociferous

Vo*cif"er*ous\, a. [Cf. F. vocif[`e]re.] Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ness, n.
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