clamorous
Clamorous means super loud and obnoxiously crying out. If you find yourself in the midst of a pack of clamorous groupies going nuts over a celebrity sighting, you'll need to put your ear plugs in.
Clamorous comes from the Latin root clāmōr, meaning "shout." If you're a clamorous person, you're not just loud, but you're also kind of aggressive about it. Town hall meetings with touchy subjects on the agenda tend to be clamorous affairs, as do championship playoffs, arguments between siblings, and daytime talk shows.
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conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry“a clamorous uproar”
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synonyms:
blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous
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noisy
full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds
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noisy
Vocabulary lists containing clamorous
This list covers "maggie and milly and molly and may," "The Raven," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf," "The Highwaymen of Hounslow Heath," "The Highwayman," "We Wear the Mask," "William Shakespeare," and Twelfth Night.
Eleven-year-old Griffin hatches a plan to retrieve his prized baseball card from a swindler.
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