What does clamorous mean?

Definitions for clamorous
ˈklæm ər əsclam·orous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferousadjective

    conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

    "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"

Wiktionary

  1. clamorousadjective

    Of or pertaining to clamor.

  2. clamorousadjective

    noisy, loud.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Clamorousadjective

    Vociferous; noisy; turbulent; loud.

    Etymology: from clamour.

    It is no sufficient argument to say, that, in urging these ceremonies, none are so clamorous as Papists, and they whom Papists suborn. Richard Hooker, b. iv. sect. 9.

    He kiss’d her lips
    With such a clamorous smack, that at the parting
    All the church eccho’d. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

    At my birth
    The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
    Were strangely clam’rous in the frighted fields. William Shakespeare.

    With the clam’rous report of war,
    Thus will I drown your exclamations. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

    Then various elements against thee join’d,
    In one more various animal combin’d,
    And fram’d the clam’rous race of busy humankind. Alexander Pope.

    A pamphlet that will settle the wavering, instruct the ignorant, and inflame the clamorous. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. clamorous

    Clamorous refers to making a loud and confusing noise or emphatically expressing a demand or complaint. It means characterized by, involving, or causing a lot of noise and complaints often in a public manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Clamorousadjective

    speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent

  2. Etymology: [LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clamorous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clamorous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of clamorous in a Sentence

  1. H.L. Mencken:

    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  2. Henry Louis Mencken:

    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  3. H. L. Mencken:

    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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