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clamant

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of clamant

blatant, caterwauling, clamorous, obstreperous, squawking, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yawping (or yauping), yowling
Words Related to clamant

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 of clamant

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 of clamant

acute, burning, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent
Words Related to clamant

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 of clamant

incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant

nonthreatening, safe, stable
Antonyms of clamant

noncritical, nonurgent

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