Synonyms:
raucous, strident
Meaning: unpleasantly loud and harsh
Synonyms:
strident, shrill
Meaning: being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism"
Synonyms:
fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident
Meaning: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
Synonyms:
blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous
Meaning: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
Usage examples
Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and menacing.
Sarka raced back to the room of the Master Beryl as a strident humming came through to him.
He had decided that Calliope Catesby should no more wake the echoes of Quicksand with his strident whoop. He had so announced.
American girls and women are accused by cultivated foreigners of having loud, harsh, strident voices; and there is too much truth in the accusation.