| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| vociferous |
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| SYLLABICATION: | vo·cif·er·ous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v -s f  r-s |
| ADJECTIVE: | Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry. | | OTHER FORMS: | vo·cifer·ous·ly —ADVERB
vo·cifer·ous·ness —NOUN
| | SYNONYMS: | vociferous, blatant, boisterous, strident, clamorous These adjectives mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud. Vociferous suggests a noisy outcry, as of vehement protest: vociferous complaints. Blatant connotes coarse or vulgar noisiness: “Up rose a blatant Radical” (Walter Bagehot). Boisterous implies unrestrained noise, tumult, and often rowdiness: boisterous youths. Strident stresses offensive harshness, shrillness, or discordance: a legislator with a strident voice. Something clamorous is both vociferous and sustained: a clamorous uproar.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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