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stridulous
adjective as in grating
adjective as in harsh
Strong match
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- cracked
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- discordant
- dissonant
- disturbing
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- guttural
- hoarse
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- raucous
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- sour
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in hoarse
adjective as in scratchy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- coarse
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- dissonant
- disturbing
- dry
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- severe
- sharp
- sour
- squawky
- strident
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in squawky
adjective as in squeaky
Weak matches
adjective as in strident
Example Sentences
He alternates his tapping with his stridulous call, and the effect on a cool, autumn-like morning is very pleasing.
The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.
Red and green interlacing circles swam before her eyes, she heard the abandoned stridulous voice of Monna Sidonia as if from afar.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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