- 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.
- (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
- (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound
- urgent, clamorous, or vociferous
