<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.</li><li>having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.</li><li>characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.</li></ul>