clamor, n. 1. uproar, din, babel, racket, hue and cry, ballyhoo, hullabaloo; shouting, shout, yell, holler, outcry, vociferation; bray, bellow, blast, clangor, jangle; hissing, catcalls, caterwauling.
2. commotion, Inf. to-do, flurry, agitation, disruption, disturbance; discord, unrest, ferment, upheaval, storm; dissension, contention, strife, friction, clashing; turmoil, tumult, broil, brawl, struggle; anarchy, chaos, confusion, pandemonium, bedlam, brouhaha, free-for-all; fracas, rumpus, scramble, scuffle, Inf. ruckus.
-v. 3. cry out, shout, yell, holler, vociferate, din; bray, bawl, bellow, whoop, hoot, yelp; hiss, catcall, caterwaul.
4. brawl, broil, struggle, wrangle; argue, quarrel, spat, squabble, tiff; dispute, contend, dissent, disagree.
5. demand, insist, press for, urge; drive, force, push, thrust, put.
clamorous, adj. 1. uproarious, clamant, clangorous, rackety, blustering, noisy; loud, deafening, ear-splitting, ear-piercing; bawling, bellowing, braying, howling, caterwauling, ululant, wailing, crying, hysterical.
2. brassy, bold, brash, loud-mouthed, mouthy, shameless, barefaced; unruly, boisterous, obstreperous, rampageous, wild, riotous; tumultuous, tumultuary, tempestuous, turbulent, stormy, raging.
3. urging, importunate, insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent; vehement, protesting.
clamp, n. 1. vise, clasp, clincher, clip, hasp, holdfast, holder, stirrup, brace; coupling, buckle, fastener, catch.
-v. 2. vise, press, squeeze, hold; secure, make fast, fasten, fix, brace, bracket; clinch, screw down, nail, bolt; grapple, grip, gripe, clip, clutch, clasp, grasp,
clan, n. 1. tribe, family, house, gens, sept, dynasty, nation, race; line, lineage, ancestry, pedigree, breed, strain, stock, stirps, Biol, phylum, Biol, class, Biol, division.
2. clique, set, coterie, in-crowd, circle, knot, band, ring, gang, crowd; order, sect, faction, group, party, team, camorra; fraternity, brotherhood, fellowship, sodality, society, community, troop, club, lodge, organization; association, affiliation, consortium, company, alliance, league, coalition, federation, guild, union, Inf. outfit; confederation, syndication, conspiracy, cabal,
clandestine, adj. 1. covert, undercover, stealthy, surreptitious, feline, nighttime, back-alley, CIA-type, Watergate, Canon Law. subreptitious; collusive, con-spirative, conspiratory, furtive, underhand, underhanded, Inf. under the counter, backroom, sneaky, sneaking, sly, foxy, crafty, cunning; unethical, dishonorable, illegal, unlawful, unauthorized, Canon Law. obreptitious.
2. secret, hugger-mugger, dark, closed, unpublic, not open to the public, private, confidential, closed-door, closeted, Archaic, privy; hidden, concealed, ensconced, shrouded, cloaked, disguised, veiled, masked, screened, in the dark; undisclosed, unrevealed, unpublicized, silent; mysterious, arcane, intriguing,
clang, v. 1. clank, clangor, reverberate; ring, knell, toll, chime, peal.
-n. 2. clangor, clank, reverberation; ring, peal, dingdong, gong.
clangor, n. 1. clang, ring, peal, reverberation.
2. clamor, din, racket, noise, uproar, tumult, hue and cry.
clank, n. 1. dull clang, clangor, jangle, clink, SI.
clunk, chink.
-v. 2. clang, clangor, jangle, clink, chink.