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); Her name was well known and became widely familiar<br />

when her "Cry of the Children" rang like a clarion throughout the country. —<br />

Life of Robert Browning;<br />

• (clangor)- a loud, resonant sound; clang, ( ); His ear no<br />

longer drinks the rich melody of music; it longs for the trumpet's clangor, and<br />

the cannon's roar. — The American Union Speaker;<br />

• (clank)- a metallic sound, sharp and hard but not resonant; The anchor<br />

comes up clank, clank, as the great chain cable is wound up by the donkey<br />

engine, and now we move off silently and smoothly. — The Women of the<br />

Arabs;<br />

• (stentorian)- very loud or powerful in sound, ( ; ); His<br />

voice was stentorian: his hand stretched out in debate, — The Last Man;<br />

• (sonorous)- loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound, ( , ); His<br />

instrumentation was very full and sonorous, and his dramatic instinct<br />

excellent. — A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until<br />

the Present;<br />

uproarious = vociferous = blatant = clamant = clamorous > clamor = cacophony<br />

= blare = din<br />

• (uproarious)- making an uproar; confused and noisy, as an assembly,<br />

person, etc, ( ); The dignity of the answer seemed to imply a<br />

contempt for the threateners, and the mob grew more uproarious. — The Life<br />

of Marie Antoinette;<br />

• (vociferous)- crying out noisily; clamorous, ( ; ); Outside<br />

roared a gale more than usually vociferous, and a steady parade of ice ghosts<br />

streamed past the windows. — Astounding Stories January, 1935;<br />

• (blatant)- brazenly obvious; flagrant; Consequently, if a logical error in a<br />

thriller seems blatant, the entire narrative construction may appear to fall<br />

down like a house of cards. — The House Next Door;<br />

• offensively noisy or loud; clamorous; blatant radios;<br />

• (clamant)- clamorous; loud; This is the clamant, imperious need of man. The<br />

solitude of life in its ultimate issue is because we were made for a higher<br />

companionship. — Friendship;<br />

• (clamorous)- full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor, (<br />

); The frogs were clamorous, and every now and then came the bass<br />

boom of a bull-frog. — Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel;<br />

• (cacophony)- harsh discordance of sound; dissonance; From behind her and<br />

within the room came a cacophony of instruments shattering and furniture<br />

breaking. — Dirge;

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