strident

From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪdˀnt]

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strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)

1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding

   The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.

2. Grating or obnoxious

   The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.

   • 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:

     If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.

3. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
   • 2003 November 6, Stuart Cosgrove, “Taylor slagging Saddam shame.”, in Daily Record‎, Glasgow, archived from the original on 12 November 2012:

     Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.

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strident (plural stridents)

1. (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.

   Hypernym: fricative

• “strident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “strident”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• tridents

• IPA^(key): /stʁi.dɑ̃/

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strident (feminine stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)

1. strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound

• “strident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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strīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of strīdō

Borrowed from French strident, from Latin stridens.

strident m or n (feminine singular stridentă, masculine plural stridenți, feminine and neuter plural stridente)

1. strident