[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strident \stri"dent\, a. l. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of
   stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.
   characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "a strident
   voice." --thackeray.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strident
     adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
            outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar";
            "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" syn: blatant,
             clamant, clamorous, vociferous
     2: unpleasantly loud and harsh syn: raucous
see also:
blatant clamant clamorous vociferous raucous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 moby thesaurus words for "strident":
   absonant, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, atonal,
   biting, bitter, blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, caustic,
   clamorous, cracked, creaking, croaking, cutting, diaphonic,
   disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant,
   double-edged, edged, escharotic, fierce, flat, grating, gravelly,
   grinding, guttural, harsh, hoarse, husky, immelodious, incisive,
   inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, keen, loud, loudmouthed,
   mordacious, mordant, multivocal, musicless, nonmelodious, off,
   off-key, off-tone, openmouthed, out of pitch, out of tone,
   out of tune, penetrating, piercing, poignant, rasping, raucous,
   rigorous, rough, scathing, scraping, scratching, scratchy, severe,
   sharp, shrill, sour, squawky, stabbing, stentorian, stertorous,
   stinging, strident-voiced, stridulant, stridulous, stringent, tart,
   trenchant, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical,
   untunable, untuned, untuneful, vehement, violent, virulent,
   vitriolic, vociferant

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