Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To make a sharp, shrill sound, as by striking metallic substances; or to strike with a sharp sound.
2. They clanged their sounding arms.
1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
2. Quality of tone.
To give out a clang; to resound.
To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
Sharp, or harsh in sound.
Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Loudness Roget’s Thesaurus §404
N. loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion) 406, resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, &c. 411, lungs, stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder
V. be loud, peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar, resound, speak up, shout, bellow, rend the air, rend the skies, fill the air, din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear, pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head, deafen, stun, faire le diable a quatre, make one's windows shake, rattle the windows, awaken the echoes, startle the echoes, wake the dead
Adj. loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear- deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic|
Phr. the air rings with, "the deep dread-bolted thunder"
Snap Roget’s Thesaurus §406
N. snap, rapping #, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, m80, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727, gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, tnt, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms) 727, whack, wham, pow
V. rap, snap, tap, knock, ping, click, clash, crack, crackle, crash, pop, slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham, brustle, burst on the ear, crepitate, rump, blow up, blow, detonate
Adj. rapping
Int. kaboom, whamo, heewhack, pow
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