Strident

Strident may refer to

  • Strident vowels
  • Strident consonants, a feature related to sibilant consonants, but also including labiodental and uvular fricatives.
  • Strident Publishing Company

Famous quotes containing the word strident:

    Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.
    Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)