megalophonous

Adjective

megalophonous (comparative more megalophonous, superlative most megalophonous)

1. (literary, rare) Strident or pompous in expression; vociferous.
   • Let the megalophonous grasshopper sound a blast and summon hither the perfunctory and circumforaneous TumbleBug, to the end that excavations may be made and learning gather new treasures.1879, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Sketches, Some Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls — Part Third
   • The world loves wit, but is all aweary of those megalophonous burros who unbraid their ears and bray at men who are striving in all earnestness to solve the industrial problem.1898, William Cowper Brann, The complete works of Brann, the iconoclast, volume 3, published 1919, page 121
2. (literary, rare) Loud.
   • The doors were closed against further admissions at 1 A. M., but not before a dozen callow youths had got in, their heads already buzzing with wine and their voices megalophonous with song.1887 January 15, Cymon [pseudonym], “Life in the Metropolis. […]”, in Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, page [3], column 5
   • “I hear some hard words passed between you?” “Yes; he called me a megalophonous megalasaurus,^([sic – meaning megalosaurus]) To which I retorted that, in comparison with him, the antediluvian cyclepteridæ would not have been in it1890 April 26, “Facetiæ”, in Harper’s Bazar […], volume XXIII, number 17, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 336, column 1