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| Main Entry: | clamorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy |
| Synonyms: | importunate, loud, uproarious, vociferous |
| Main Entry: | boisterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy and mischievous |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, disorderly, effervescent, impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous, rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild, bouncy, brawling, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, restrained, silent |
| Main Entry: | crucial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical, important |
| Synonyms: | acute, central, clamorous, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown*, touchy, urgent, vital, climacteric, climatic, hanging by thread, high-priority, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
| Antonyms: | trivial, uncritical, unimportant, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | dictatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tyrannical, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, autocratic, bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm, haughty, imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unlimited, unrestricted, crack-the-whip, dictative, iron-handed, throwing weight around |
| Antonyms: | democratic, docile, passive |
| Main Entry: | importunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, imperative, instant, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent, harassing, overly solicitous |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, relaxed, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable |
| Main Entry: | insistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, persevering, persistent, pressing, resolute, unrelenting, urgent, perseverant, reiterative, resounding |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, indifferent, lenient, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | noisy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud and unharmonious in sound |
| Synonyms: | blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, clamorous, deafening, disorderly, jumping, obstreperous, piercing, rambunctious, raspy, riotous, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferous, blusterous, booming, chattering, clangorous, clattery, ear-popping, ear-splitting, loudmouth, rackety, raising Cain, raising the roof, screaming, strepitous, turned up |
| Antonyms: | noiseless, quiet, silent, still |
| Main Entry: | obstreperous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, loud, piercing, rambunctious, riotous, rowdy, unmanageable, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild, blusterous, booming, out of hand, raising Cain, raising the roof, screaming, strepitous, tumultous |
| Main Entry: | pressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important; urgent |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying, demanding, dire, distressing, exacting, exigent, immediate, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, life-and-death*, obliging, requiring, serious, vital, claiming, constraining, forcing, heat-on, high-priority, hurry-up |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, trivial, unimportant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, out of control, outrageous, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild, blustering, exceeding bounds, on the rampage, pandemic, rampaging |
| Antonyms: | limited, restrained, checked, controlled |
| Main Entry: | strident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh, shrill |
| Synonyms: | blatant, boisterous, clamorous, clashing, discordant, grating, hoarse, jarring, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rasping, raucous, squeaky, stentorian, vociferous, jangling, screeching, squawky, stertorous, stridulant, stridulous, unmusical, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | low, mild, moderate, soft |
| Main Entry: | tumultous/tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; in an uproar |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbunctious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, immediate, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty*, called-for, demanded, hurry-up, impelling, life and death, top-priority, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vociferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud, insistent |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamant, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, ranting, shouting, shrill, strident, uproarious, vehement, distracting, loud-mouthed, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silent |
| Main Entry: | tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbustious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent; crucial |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, critical, crying, desperate, drastic, exigent, extreme, immoderate, imperative, importunate, instant, pressing, climacteric |
| Antonyms: | trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | exigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent, pressing |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, menacing, necessary, threatening, constraining, needful |
| Antonyms: | ordinary, usual, unpressured |
| Main Entry: | imperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital, no turning back |
| Antonyms: | optional, secondary, unnecessary, voluntary, inessential |
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