ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Clattery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Clattery is an adjective meaning (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.

Meaning

(informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.

Example Sentences

The truck’s clattery, loose-valved idle.
All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.
She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
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.

Synonyms for clattery

Depending on context, synonyms include noisy, clattering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include noisy, aclatter, clunky, clattersome, clangy, clacky.

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