Thesaurus
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 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
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
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