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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Making or marked by loud outcry or sustained din.
  2. adj. Insistently demanding attention; importunate. See Synonyms at vociferous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Making a clamor or outcry; noisy; vociferous; loud; resounding.
  2. Urgent or importunate in complaints or demands.
  3. Figuratively, crying out, as for retribution or punishment; heinous; flagrant.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to clamor.
  2. adj. noisy, loud.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

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  • oroboros CLAMorous. Noisy v. silent as a clam. Nov 25, 2008

‘clamorous’ has been looked up 2423 times, loved by 3 people, added to 16 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 13.