stentorian

extremely loud (after Stentor, a loud-voiced Greek herald in the Iliad)


This word appears in a New Yorker review of a one-man band called The Mountain Goats: “The grind of the boom box’s capstan is often audible, but it does not overwhelm Darnielle’s stentorian voice or his violent strumming; he may be the least self-conscious singer alive.

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