Clamorous
['klæmərəs]
Definition
(a.) Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Vociferous, noisy, boisterous, obstreperous, uproarious, blatant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See NOISY]
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Examples
- Her voice was loud and clamorous, the other people in the room were startled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This cabinet dazzled me, it was so full of light: it deafened me, it was clamorous with voices: it stifled me, it was so hot, choking, thronged. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Boots and Brewer immediately perceive that it is immensely worth mentioning, and become politely clamorous. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The trading interest particularly became clamorous for peace. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Night came, but the unionists were conspicuous by their absence, although more circuits than one were intolerant of delay and clamorous for attention---eight local unionists being away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I feed a weakness or two lest they should get clamorous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here followed an interval of clamorous prayer, accompanied by fearful groans. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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