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streperous

streperous adjective: loud; boisterous.

Adjective

streperous (comparative more streperous, superlative most streperous)

  1. (archaic) loud; boisterous
    • streperous carriage1617, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
    • And though Porta conceive, becauſe in a ſtreperous eruption, it riſeth against fire it doth therefore reſiſt lightning, yet is that no emboldning Illation1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of streperous

comparativemore streperous
superlativemost streperous

Origin of streperous

From Latin streperus, from strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.

Questions about streperous

What does streperous mean?
Streperous means loud; boisterous.
What part of speech is streperous?
Streperous is an adjective.

Words near streperous in the dictionary

  1. Strep pyo
  2. strep throat
  3. strepadhesin
  4. strepavidin
  5. strepent
  6. streperous
  7. Strephon
  8. Strephons
  9. strephosymbolia
  10. strepitant
  11. strepitantly

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