clamant

clamant

adjective

Definition of CLAMANT

1

engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest <clamant students gathered outside the college president's office, protesting the denial of tenure for the popular professor>

Synonyms blatant, caterwauling, clamant, clamorous, obstreperous, squawking, vociferant, vociferating, yawping (or yauping), yowling

Related Words clangorous, dinning, discordant, noisy; loudmouthed, outspoken, vocal; boisterous, rackety, raucous, robustious, rowdy, uproarious; cacophonous, dissonant, earsplitting, grating, shrill, strident; blaring, blustering, booming, brassy, brazen

Near Antonyms noiseless, quiet, silent, soundless, still; calm, hushed, subdued

2

needing immediate attention <faced with utter bankruptcy, she didn't think that moist skin was one of her clamant needs at that moment>

Synonyms burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent

Related Words demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding; crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death (also life-or-death), serious, severe, vital; dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable

Near Antonyms incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant; nonthreatening, safe, stable

Antonyms noncritical, nonurgent