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vociferous

Postby Bailey » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:48 pm

vo·cif·er·ous (v-sfr-s)
adj.
Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry.


vo·cifer·ous·ly adv.
vo·cifer·ous·ness n.
Synonyms: vociferous, blatant, boisterous, strident, clamorous
These adjectives mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud. Vociferous suggests a noisy outcry, as of vehement protest: vociferous complaints.
Blatant connotes coarse or vulgar noisiness: "Up rose a blatant Radical" Walter Bagehot.
Boisterous implies unrestrained noise, tumult, and often rowdiness: boisterous youths.
Strident stresses offensive harshness, shrillness, or discordance: a legislator with a strident voice.
Something clamorous is both vociferous and sustained: a clamorous uproar.

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Postby Perry » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:50 am

vociferous
1611, from L. vociferari "to shout, yell," from vox (gen. vocis) "voice" + root of ferre "to carry" (see infer). A noun form, vociferation, is recorded from c.1400.
Don't yell at me. Carry that voice elsewhere. :wink:
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