strident
[strahyd-nt]
- making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking:strident insects; strident hinges.
- having a shrill, irritating quality or character:a strident tone in his writings.
- Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
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