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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