clamorous

Etymology

clamor + -ous; compare Latin clāmōrōsus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin clāmōrem.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to clamor.
   1. (of sounds) Of great intensity.
      a clamorous fire alarm
   2. (of people, animals or things) Creating a loud noise.
      clamorous trumpets
   3. (of emotions or feelings) Expressed loudly.
      We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations. 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42
   4. (of times, places, events or activities) Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise.
      a clamorous market
      […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious. 1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, page 425
   5. (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
      […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends, 1656, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of […] James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and […] King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, London, page 418
      The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs. 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, Part 1, p. 148
      They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms. 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 2, in Ruth, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 58
2. Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
   She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green. 1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376
   It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt. 2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99