JANGLY Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

jangly

adjective

Definition of jangly

as in strident

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Recent Examples of jangly In late April, a group of women with jangly earrings and effervescent energy sat in a beer garden in San Antonio with plastic cups of red wine in front of them. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 20 May 2026 With the pounding drops of big-room house and the jangly swing of country, people started calling Bunt. — Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026 The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 14 Jan. 2026 Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 9 Jan. 2026 The boogie-woogie vibe instilled by Federici’s jangly piano pegs it as a pool hall hit rather than the headphones-listening and ponderous nature of the original. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025 They were inspired by the protean roots of samba, the silky vibe of the bossa nova, and the jangly wave of Brazilian pop-rock known as jovem guarda. — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 10 Sep. 2024

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Adjective

Merton did not believe in the cold war’s strident moral opposition between the free and unfree worlds.

— Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2026
Teams take on the personality of their leaders, sometimes to the chagrin of those seeking something more strident.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of strident

Adjective

Plus, the metallic handle is shaped to look like a pumpkin stem, giving the entire display piece an elegant fall look.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2026
From laboratory samples to a commercial reactor Lightbridge is developing a metallic fuel intended to improve the performance of existing and future nuclear reactors.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of metallic

Adjective

The shrill call of the shofar ensures no one falls asleep during lengthy Jewish High Holy Day services each year.

— Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Amid the rumblings of construction at nearby David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, the sound of a shrill whistle and chopping feet at the nearby Murfin Family Practice Fields signaled one thing.

— Christian Marshall, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of shrill

Adjective

As was the raucous song of the small-block two feet from my spine, but that part is probably the least surprising of all.

— Jerry Perez, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026
With the help of a few martinis and flutes of champagne, the raucous lineup of friends, muses, and confidantes sat still long enough to take the portrait accompanying this story.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of raucous

Adjective

The jangling bleeps and bloops of the arcade game, meanwhile, come to form a score of sorts, a sonic diversion from the real world closing in on Cristian.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
Modesty might actually seem attractive, after the nerve-jangling, always-on-tenterhooks Trump years.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026

Definition of jangling

Adjective

The score was such a beautiful, odd, dissonant piece of work.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 July 2026
This is reminding me of watching Slint play a reunion show in 2014 under the I-65 highway at a festival in Louisville, and how simultaneously awesome and cognitively dissonant that experience was.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 June 2026

Definition of dissonant

Adjective

In the June 27 debate, put on by CNN, the then-president delivered a halting performance with a raspy voice, struggling with multiple stumbles and lost trains of thought.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
Sauer, a Harvard Law graduate who clerked for Scalia—and proved his worth to Trump by successfully arguing the Presidential-immunity case—speaks fast, in a distinctively raspy voice.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of raspy

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