different between obstreperous vs strident

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstreperus, first attested circa 17th c.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?st??p.??.?s/, /?b?st??p.??.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?st??p???s/, /??b?st??p???s/

Adjective

obstreperous (comparative more obstreperous, superlative most obstreperous)

1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

   Synonyms: clamorous, loud, noisy, vociferous

   • 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, ch. 7:

     [O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":

     […] my hope

     Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope

     With that obstreperous joy success would bring

   • 1918, Henry B. Fuller, On the Stairs, ch. 3:

     He developed an obstreperous baritone […] and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.

2. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

   Synonyms: recalcitrant, uncooperative, unruly; see also Thesaurus:obstinate

   • 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, October 1827:

     [W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.

   • 1903, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903:

     My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.

   • 1915, Stewart Edward White, The Gray Dawn, ch. 70:

     They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.

   • 2015, Penny Dreadful S2E9, 3 min

     This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods.

Derived terms

• obstreperously
• obstreperousness
• stroppy

Translations

English

Etymology

From French strident, from Latin str?d?ns, present active participle of str?d?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?st?a?.d?nt/, [?st?a?d?nt]

Adjective

strident (comparative more strident, superlative most strident)

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

2. Grating or obnoxious
3. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides

Derived terms

• stridently
• stridency

Related terms

Translations

Noun

strident (plural stridents)

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

   Hypernym: fricative

Translations

References

• strident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “strident”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• tridents

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?i.d??/

Adjective

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

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

Further reading

• “strident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tridents

Latin

Verb

str?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of str?d?

Romanian

Etymology

From French strident, from Latin stridens.

Adjective

strident m or n (feminine singular strident?, masculine plural striden?i, feminine and neuter plural stridente)

1. strident

Declension