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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Making an outcry; clamorous; noisy: as, a vociferous partizan.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy.

WordNet 3.0

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

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  • sera "Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry. a vociferous mob" Aug 13, 2007

  • seanmeade Vociferous derives from Latin vociferari, "to shout, to cry out" from vox, "voice" + ferre, "to carry."

    Guess what that makes me sing? 'Hush, hush, keep it down, down. Voices carry.' Mar 26, 2007

‘vociferous’ has been looked up 3275 times, loved by 13 people, added to 115 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.