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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry;
- Example: "blatant radios"
- Example: "a clamorous uproar"
- Example: "strident demands"
- Example: "a vociferous mob"
[syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]

2. demanding attention;
- Example: "clamant needs"
- Example: "a crying need"
- Example: "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken
- Example: "insistent hunger"
- Example: "an instant need"
[syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Clamant \Cla"mant\, a. [L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call.
   Cf. Claimant.]
   Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. "Clamant children."
   --Thomson.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

clamant
    adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
           outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident
           demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant,
           clamorous, strident, vociferous]
    2: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need";
       "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"-
       H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn:
       clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant]