clamorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæməɹəs/
Forms: form: more clamorous
form: most clamorous
form: clamourous
Etymology: From clamor + -ous; compare Latin clāmōrōsus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin clāmōrem.
Senses: examples: text: a clamorous fire alarm
text: […] 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.
ref: 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]:
text: […] 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;
ref: 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:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clamor.
Of great intensity. (of sounds)
synonyms: loud
examples: text: clamorous trumpets
text: The clamorous owl that nightly hoots
ref: 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]:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clamor.
Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)
synonyms: noisy
examples: text: We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.
ref: 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42:
text: […] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
ref: 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:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clamor.
Expressed loudly. (of emotions or feelings)
examples: text: a clamorous market
text: Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor
Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, page 49:
text: […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.
ref: 1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, page 425:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clamor.
Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. (of times, places, events or activities)
synonyms: noisy
examples: text: Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
Rather than make unprofited return.
ref: 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]:
text: […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.
ref: 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 2, in Ruth, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 58:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clamor.
Insistently expressing a desire for something.
synonyms: vociferous
raw_tags: of people or speech
examples: text: She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.
ref: 1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376:
text: It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.
ref: 2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99:
synonyms: garish
gaudy
loud
glosses: Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
Synonyms: clamorsome
Derived terms: clamorously
clamorousness
clamorous reed warbler
unclamorous