Definition

Adverb 1. In a loud, harsh, and grating manner: Describes a sound, voice, or manner of speaking that is unpleasantly loud, forceful, and often irritating to hear. 2. In a forcefully assertive or aggressively insistent manner: Describes an action or statement made with forceful and often unpleasant vigor or insistence.

Usage

The adverb "stridently" modifies verbs, typically those related to sound or communication, to indicate they are performed in a loud, harsh, or aggressively insistent way. It often carries a negative connotation of unpleasantness or lack of subtlety.

Examples

• The alarm clock buzzed stridently, jolting her awake.
• She argued stridently for the new policy, her voice rising above the others in the meeting.
• The politician's advertisements criticized his opponent stridently and without nuance.
• The hinges of the old gate squealed stridently in the wind.

Advanced Usage

• "to proclaim/declare stridently": To announce something in a loud, forceful, and often uncompromising way.
  • The group's leader stridently declared their refusal to negotiate.
• "to oppose/criticize stridently": To resist or find fault with something in a vehement and harsh manner.
  • The editorial stridently criticized the government's inaction.

Variants and Related Words

• Strident (adjective): Having a loud, harsh, and grating sound or character; forcefully assertive.
  • His strident tone made it difficult to listen to his arguments.
• Stridency (noun): The quality of being strident.
  • The stridency of the debate turned many voters away.

Synonyms

• Harshly: In a rough or grating manner.
• Shrillly: In a high-pitched and piercing way.
• Raucously: In a loud, harsh, and disorderly way.
• Vehemently: In a forceful, passionate, or intense manner.
• Vociferously: In a loud and clamorous manner.

Antonyms

• Softly: In a quiet, gentle manner.
• Melodiously: In a pleasant, tuneful manner.
• Gently: In a mild, moderate manner.
• Subtly: In a delicate, understated manner.

Adverb

1. in a strident manner
   • the cheap clock ticked stridently