Vocabulary
Strident
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a sound) loud and harsh; grating.
Urdu meaning
سخت، کرخت اور اونچی آواز
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Canada is worried about strident statements about how Canadian goods will face tariffs to bring down the trade deficit with them.
- Canada is worried about strident statements about how Canadian goods will face tariffs to bring down the trade deficit with them.
- Chancellor Scholz was a little more strident in his response to Musk`s latest tweets about him,asking his followers to not `feed the troll`.
- N recent years, Pakistan has made several attempts at introducing an overarching mechanism through which to check the strident criticism of the state, its institutions, and their policies, on social media.
- Had Pakistan ever been serious about wanting to destroy TTP`s ideologically charged terrorism, it would have looked for places where the call to `jihad` is loud and strident.
Synonyms
harsh, raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, loud, stentorian, shrill
Curator example
“his voice had become increasingly strident”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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