strepitous \STREP-i-tuhs\,
adjective:
boisterous; noisy.
But what strepitous sounds, what harmonious tumult diverts my attention to another part ?
-- José Francisco de Isla, "The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar Gerund de Campazas"
Here is no idyllic meditative retreat from the strepitous city but a scene of virile action—fields sounding with human labor, vibrating with human energy.
-- Beulah B. Amram, "Swinburne and Carducci," The Yale Review
Strepitous stems from the Latin word strepit which meant "noise."
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