What does clattery mean?
Clattery means (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome..
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(informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome..
There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.
She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.
The truck’s clattery, loose-valved idle.
Use clattery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clattery means (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome..
Common synonyms include noisy, clattering.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.
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