different between earsplitting vs clamorous
earsplitting
English
Etymology
ear +? splitting
Adjective
earsplitting (comparative more earsplitting, superlative most earsplitting)
- Extremely loud, painfully loud.
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clamorous
English
Alternative forms
- clamourous (archaic)
Etymology
clamor +? -ous; compare Latin cl?m?r?sus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin cl?m?rem.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?klæm???s/
- Hyphenation: cla?mor?ous
Adjective
clamorous (comparative more clamorous, superlative most clamorous)
- Of or pertaining to clamor.
- (of sounds) Of great intensity.
- Synonym: loud
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- […] he took the bride about the neck,
- And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack
- That at the parting all the church did echo.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 200,[2]
- […] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;
- (of people, animals or things) Creating a loud noise.
- Synonym: noisy
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene 2,[3]
- The clamorous owl that nightly hoots
- (of emotions or feelings) Expressed loudly.
- 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42,[4]
- We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 2, Chapter 18, p. 226,[5]
- […] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
- 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42,[4]
- (of times, places, events or activities) Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise.
- Synonym: noisy
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 4, p. 49,[6]
- Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor
- Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, Chapter 11, p. 425,[7]
- […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.
- (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
- Synonym: vociferous
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 4,[8]
- Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
- Rather than make unprofited return.
- 1656, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of […] James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and […] King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, London, p. 418,[9]
- […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, Part 1, p. 148,[10]
- The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 2, p. 58,[11]
- They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.
- (of sounds) Of great intensity.
- Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
- Synonyms: garish, gaudy, loud
- 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, New York: Avon, 1980, Chapter 6, p. 376,[12]
- She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.
- 2015, John Irving, Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 9, p. 99,[13]
- It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.
Synonyms
- clamorsome
Derived terms
- clamorously
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