1. loud and harsh; grating: "his voice had become increasingly sharp, almost strident"
▪ presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way: "public pronouncements on the crisis became less strident"
▪ another term for sibilant
Word Originmid 17th century: from Latin strident- ‘creaking’, from the verb stridere.
