# clamorous
## English
### Alternative forms

* clamourous (archaic)

### Etymology

From clamor +‎ -ous; compare Latin clāmōrōsus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin clāmōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈklæməɹəs/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Hyphenation: cla‧mor‧ous

### Adjective

clamorous (comparative more clamorous, superlative most clamorous)
* Of or pertaining to clamor.
** Of great intensity. (of sounds)
    Synonym: loud
    a clamorous fire alarm
*** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:[…] he took the bride about the neck, And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack That at the parting all the church did echo.
*** 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 200:[…] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;
** Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)
    Synonym: noisy
    clamorous trumpets
*** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:The clamorous owl that nightly hoots
** Expressed loudly. (of emotions or feelings)
*** 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments‎, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42:We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.
*** 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 18, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 226:[…] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
** Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. (of times, places, events or activities)
    Synonym: noisy
    a clamorous market
*** 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, page 49:Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.
*** 1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance‎, London: Faber & Faber, page 425:[…] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.
** (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
    Synonym: vociferous
*** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.
*** 1656, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of […] James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and […] King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First‎, London, page 418:[…] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,
*** 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‎, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, Part 1, p. 148: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.
*** 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 2, in Ruth‎, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 58:They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.
* Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
    Synonyms: garish, gaudy, loud
** 1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector‎, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376:She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.
** 2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries‎, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99:It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.

#### Synonyms

* clamorsome

#### Derived terms

* clamorously
* clamorousness
* clamorous reed warbler
* unclamorous