clamorous

comparative more clamorous · superlative most clamorous · alternative archaic clamourous

1. Of or pertaining to clamor.
   1. Of great intensity. (of sounds)

      a clamorous fire alarm

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      […] 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.

      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]

      […] 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;

      1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 200

      Synonyms: loud

   2. Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)

      clamorous trumpets

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      The clamorous owl that nightly hoots

      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]

      Synonyms: noisy

   3. Expressed loudly. (of emotions or feelings)

      […] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.

      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

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      We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.

      1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42

   4. Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. (of times, places, events or activities)

      a clamorous market

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      Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.

      1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, page 49

      […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.

      1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, page 425

      Synonyms: noisy

   5. Insistently expressing a desire for something.

      Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.

      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]

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      […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,

      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

      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.

      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

      They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.

      1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 2, in Ruth, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 58

      Synonyms: vociferous

2. Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.

   It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.

   2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99

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   She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.

   1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376

   Synonyms: garish, gaudy, loud