clamorous

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈklæməɹəs/

Etymology: From clamor + -ous; compare Latin clāmōrōsus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin clāmōrem.

Of or pertaining to clamor.
“a clamorous fire alarm”
“[…] he took the bride about the neck, And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack That at the parting all the church did echo.”
Of or pertaining to clamor.
“clamorous trumpets”
“The clamorous owl that nightly hoots”
Of or pertaining to clamor.
“We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.”
“[…] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.”
Of or pertaining to clamor.
“a clamorous market”
“Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.”
Of or pertaining to clamor.
“Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.”
“[…] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,”
Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
“She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.”
“It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.”