clamorous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to clamor.

   • a clamorous fire alarm
   • […] he took the bride about the neck, And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack That at the parting all the church did echo.
   • […] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;
2. 2

   Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.

   • She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.
   • It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.

The neighborhood

• synonymclamorsome