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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
absonant, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, atonal, biting, bitter, blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, caustic, clamorous, cracked, creaking, croaking, cutting, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, double-edged, edged, escharotic, fierce, flat, grating, gravelly, grinding, guttural, harsh, hoarse, husky, immelodious, incisive, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, keen, loud, loudmouthed, mordacious, mordant, multivocal, musicless, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, openmouthed, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, penetrating, piercing, poignant, rasping, raucous, rigorous, rough, scathing, scraping, scratching, scratchy, severe, sharp, shrill, sour, squawky, stabbing, stentorian, stertorous, stinging, strident-voiced, stridulant, stridulous, stringent, tart, trenchant, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, vociferant
Dictionary Results for strident:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
strident
    adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
           outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident
           demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant,
           clamorous, strident, vociferous]
    2: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a
       constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin'
       and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant,
       spirant, strident]
    3: being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands";
       "shrill criticism" [syn: strident, shrill]
    4: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous, strident]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Strident \Stri"dent\, a. [L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of
   stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.]
   Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident
   voice." --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster]
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