Synonyms for clamorous


Grammar : Adj
Spell : klam-er-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈklæm ər əs


Définition of clamorous

Origin :
  • c.1400, from Middle French clamoreux or directly from Medieval Latin clamorosus, from Latin clamor "a shout" (see clamor (n.)). Related: Clamorously; clamorousness.
  • adj noisy
Example sentences :
  • They were not clamorous, but sweet, and they drowned her will, and drew her to themselves.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • There was a clamorous crowd about the door––pushing, scuffling, shouting.
  • Extract from : « Billy Topsail & Company » by Norman Duncan
  • To him ran Orpheus, in clamorous anxiety to undo the evil he had wrought.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Myths » by Jean Lang
  • At such a moment then, called our ladies-legatees, clamorous for hush-money.
  • Extract from : « Heart » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Amidst a peal of tongues, this clamorous procession retired.
  • Extract from : « The Stranger in France » by John Carr
  • It must, however, be allowed that they are not importunate, nor clamorous.
  • Extract from : « A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland » by Samuel Johnson
  • Bertha's transition from grief to joy was so clamorous that no one could answer.
  • Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
  • All his nascent intellectual powers were alive and clamorous.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • But it is not the noisy, clamorous, obtrusive life of the city.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
  • But the largest crowd prefers, just now, not to do anything so clamorous.
  • Extract from : « G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study » by Julius West

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