clamorous
2
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈklæmərəs/
:
clamoroso
- The shots came only minutes after what sounded like a large, clamorous gathering of people shouting in the street.
- clamorous crowd
- clamorous demands
- clamorous voices
Examples
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She heard the crows in large numbers now, clamorous in the trees, probably mobbing a hawk.
Fiction book (2002) -
Down in the engine room, the creaking and groaning of the hull were uncommonly clamorous.
Fiction book (1998) -
There's a clamorous noise in the air.
Fiction book (1992) -
The children are young and active; the house is untidy, crowded, and clamorous with their friends.
Fiction book (1997) -
The clamorous incursion of chimes and thunder suggests shock and disorientation.
Academic text (2016) -
Mrs. Hay was kindly, bustling, busy with her household and three children and their clamorous imperatives: food, clothing, cleanliness, heat.
Fiction book (1993) -
My life was fueled by longing, by vast and clamorous desires; a striving toward things I did not have and, perhaps, had no hope of having.
Fiction book (1995) -
After the captains had marshaled their ranks, those Trojans marched out clamorous as birds, like cranes that clamor under the heavens.
Academic text (2008) -
What had previously been a decorous scene of patrons and scholars mulling over the works of long-dead artists suddenly became a clamorous world of amateurs, volunteers, dilettantes, and more than a few rank opportunists as well.
Academic text (1996) -
The children were clamorous as they played outside, shouting and laughing loudly.
Synonyms
22
7.2
Very loud and harsh in a way that feels unpleasant
7
7.8
To speak loudly and strongly to show disagreement
Being loud and urgent and demanding immediate action
Antonyms
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clamorous comes from the Latin verb clamare, which means 'to shout', and you can see the same idea in exclaim. So a clamorous crowd is one that is loud and full of shouting.