Shrill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound: the shrill wail of a siren.
  • adj. Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound: a shrill fife.
  • adj. Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid: shrill colors.
  • v. To utter in a shrill manner; scream.
  • verb-intransitive. To produce a shrill cry or sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. High-pitched and piercing.
  • adj. Sharp or keen to the senses.
  • v. To make a shrill noise.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
  • n. A shrill sound.
  • verb-intransitive. To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
  • v. To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To utter or emit a keen, piercing, high-pitched sound.
  • To sound shrilly; be shrill.
  • To cause to give out a shrill sound.
  • To utter or produce with a shrill sound.
  • Sharp and piercing in sound; high and keen (somewhat disagreeably so) in voice or note: the common use of the word.
  • Emitting or capable of emitting a sharp, high, piercing sound.
  • Piercing; sharp; affecting the senses sharply or keenly; bright.
  • n. A keen or piercing sound.
  • In a shrill manner; shrilly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. utter a shrill cry
  • adj. of colors that are bright and gaudy
  • adj. being sharply insistent on being heard
  • adj. having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
  • Equivalent
    colourful    colorful    imperative    high    high-pitched   
    Antonym
    dull    low    sweet   
    Verb Form
    shrilled    shrilling    shrills   
    Cross Reference
    cry    exclaim   
    Form
    shrilled    shrilling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acute    sharp    piercing    high    keen    small    penetrative    penetrating    thing    clarisonous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastille    Belleville    Bill    Brazil    Brill    Gil    Gill    Hill    Jill    Lil   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    high-pitched    loud    muffle    plaintive    raucous    frantic    faint    insistent    hysterical    melodious