powerful vs strident

powerful

adj
  • Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence. 

  • Leading to many or important deductions. 

  • Large; capacious; said of veins of ore. 

adv
  • Synonym of very 

strident

adj
  • Vigorous; making strides 

  • Grating or obnoxious 

  • Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding 

noun
  • One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth. 

How often have the words powerful and strident occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )