stridor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stri=dor

CIDE DICTIONARY

stridor, n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.].

 A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stridor

acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness, screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness, stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf

ROGET THESAURUS

stridor

Stridor

N stridor, creak, creaking, discord, stridor, roughness, sharpness cacophony, cacoepy, acute note, high note, soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny trumpet, voce di testa, creaking, stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous, rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow, sharp, high, acute, shrill, trumpet-toned, piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned, cracked, discordant, cacophonous, stridor, creak, creaking, discord, stridor, roughness, sharpness cacophony, cacoepy, acute note, high note, soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny trumpet, voce di testa, creaking, stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous, rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow, sharp, high, acute, shrill, trumpet-toned, piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned, cracked, discordant, cacophonous.