| 单词 | strident |
| 释义 | strident (once / 3772 pages) adj Something that's strident is loud, grating, and obnoxious. Your roommate's strident laughter as he watches cartoons late into the night might inspire you to buy a pair of ear plugs. Strident is related to the Latin word strix , meaning "screech owl." This is a kind of owl that doesn't hoot. It screeches in a strident way. Strident can also describe the forceful expression of an unpopular opinion. Don't confuse strident with striding, which means walking quickly with a wide step. If you're angry at your brother, you might come striding into his room and begin making a strident case for why he has done you wrong. WORD FAMILYstrident: stridence, stridency, stridently+/stridency: stridencies USAGE EXAMPLESEnvironmental Protection Agency’s transition team and nominated fellow denialist and strident EPA foe Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the agency. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) She is by turns defiant, angry, charming, nonsensical, strident – sometimes it’s hard to break her flow to ask questions. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) Such sentiments were echoed by the more strident theologians of Bach’s time. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1adj unpleasantly loud and harsh Syn raucous cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound 2adj conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry strident demands Syn blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous noisy full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds 3adj being sharply insistent on being heard strident demands Syn shrill imperative requiring attention or action 4adj of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') Syn continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant soft (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh') |
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