Cringy vs Strident - What's the difference?
cringy | strident |
cringeworthy
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 4, author=Virginia Heffernan, title=Voilà (Sort Of)!, work=New York Times
, passage=The series features a fantastic, cringy scene set at the upfronts, and the whole show serves as an excavation of the prime-time TV life, from the high-flying ‘80s to the mystifying nows. }}
Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
Grating or obnoxious
(nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
* {{quote-news, 2003, November 6, Stuart Cosgrove, Taylor slagging Saddam shame., Daily Record, city=Glasgow
, passage=Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress. }}
(linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
As adjectives the difference between cringy and strident
is that cringy is cringeworthy while strident is loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.As a noun strident is
(linguistics) one of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.cringy
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Anagrams
*strident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
- The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
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