stentorian
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9.3
- adjective
- /stɛnˈtɔːriən/
- Formal
- He pours himself a glass of water, drinks, clears his throat, then speaks: stentorian, confident.
- stentorian tones
- stentorian voice
Examples
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The strained, stentorian voice of the judge called for attention.
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He was celebrated for arresting an audience of thousands in the open air; his unusually stentorian voice hammered his words home by intensifying at climactic moments, as in his discomfiting address to youth about their mortality.
Academic text (1992) -
Her voice becoming increasingly stentorian with every project.
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The strained, stentorian voice of the judge called for attention.
Fiction book (1990) -
Perhaps, Bill thought, I shouldn't have upstaged his anecdote, or maybe he's embarrassed because he doesn't know what stentorian means.
Fiction book (1998) -
The common walls on both sides are well insulated; even if the neighbors engaged in stentorian bouts of domestic violence or turned Megadeth up a few decibels on the CD player, most of the noise would be filtered out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Given the seriousness and pretension with which so many rock critics write about their favorite artists, you might expect an academician to bury Dylan beneath mounds of stentorian prose.
Blog text (34) -
Then the drumming would go to a kind of peak, while one of the Tonka jeeps bounced over the terrain, and a voice would say, "Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys!" in very stentorian tones—you remember?
Fiction book (1998) -
Bo Barnes invigorates any scene with his stentorian laughter and fathomless energy.
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In their 1950s film 'Waters of Destiny,' Corps officials boasted in stentorian tones about taming 'water that once ran wild.'
Synonyms
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4.4
A person who speaks very loudly so others hear them
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4.1
A very loud, deep sound like thunder
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3.4
A deep loud voice or sound that echoes
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7.2
A deep, loud sound that fills a place
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9.3
A person who has a very loud, strong voice like a singer in a large hall
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9.9
A full, round voice that sounds powerful
Antonyms
How Loud
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Morphology
Etymology
The word stentorian comes from the name Stentor, a loud Greek messenger whose voice was said to be 'as loud as fifty men'. So a stentorian voice means very loud and powerful, like one person who can be heard over many others.