Word Meanings - STRIDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

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• GRATICULE
  A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• GRATICULATION
  The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions. (more info) graticuler, craticuler, to square, fr. graticule, craticule,
• GRATITUDE
  The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.
• SHRILL
  Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.
• GRATIOLIN
  One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
• GRATIFIER
  One who gratifies or pleases.
• GRATIFICATION
  1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
• GRATED
  Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
• GRATULATION
  The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.
• GRATULATORY
  Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory. The usual groundwork of such gratulatory odes. Bp. Horsley.
• GRATE
  Serving to gratify; agreeable. Sir T. Herbert.
• GRATER
  One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
• GRATUITY
  1. Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present. Swift. 2. Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
• GRATUITOUS
  1. Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice. We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.
• GRATIFY
  1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
• GRATIS
  For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• VOICEFUL
  Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• INTEGRATOR
  That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• DEFLAGRATION
  The act or process of deflagrating. (more info) 1. A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.
• DENIGRATOR
  One who, or that which, blackens.
• IMMIGRATION
  The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• CONFLAGRATION
  A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Pope.
• INTERMIGRATION
  Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. Sir M. Hale.
• TRANSMIGRATION
  1. The act of passing from one country to another; migration. 2. The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.