Another word for shrill
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Adjective
Elevated in pitch
- Reacting readily to stimuli or impressions; sensitive:
- Keenly perceptive or discerning:
- Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
- Triple:
- Relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range.
- High-pitched; shrill.
- In a shrill manner.
- Inclined to shriek, or characterised by shrieks.
- A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
- The act of playing on a pipe.
- The music produced by a pipe when played.
- Very loud; shrill:
- Fixed and intense in appearance:
- Causing pain, especially because of cold:
- High in pitch, as a voice or musical tone.
- Steeply sloped, as a roof.
- Marked by or indicating intense emotion:
- Having a relatively great elevation; extending far upward:
- Extending a specified distance upward:
- Far or farther from a reference point:
Verb
To utter a long, loud, piercing cry, as of pain or fright
- A shrill, often frantic cry.
- A sound suggestive of such a cry.
- To utter a shriek.
- A high-pitched, strident cry.
- A sound suggestive of this cry:
- To utter in a screech or high-pitched voice.
- To utter a long loud piercing cry, as from pain or fear.
- To make a loud piercing sound:
- To speak or write in an excited or fearful manner.
- To screech; shriek.
- To creak.
- A screech; a shriek.
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Another word for shrill
Modifier
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- Reacting readily to stimuli or impressions; sensitive:
- Keenly perceptive or discerning:
- Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
- Having a harsh, unpleasant sound; discordant.
- Not being in accord; conflicting.
- Disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant.
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a metal.
- Containing a metal:
- Lustrous; sparkling:
- Rough-sounding and harsh:
- Boisterous and disorderly:
- Any loud noise, such as from an elephant.
- Present participle of blare.
- Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
- Disagreeable to the sense of sight:
- Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
- Making a clangor.
- Making noise:
- Full of, characterized by, or accompanied by noise:
- Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive:
- Unpleasantly loud and noisy:
- Loud and shrill enough to hurt the ears:
- Extremely loud.
- A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
- The act of playing on a pipe.
- The music produced by a pipe when played.
- Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
- Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
- Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.
- Present participle of screech.
- The act of producing a screech.
- Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill:
- Forcefully assertive or severely critical:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Able or seeming to penetrate:
- Keenly perceptive or understanding; acute:
- Very loud; shrill:
- Fixed and intense in appearance:
- Causing pain, especially because of cold:
- High in pitch, as a voice or musical tone.
- Steeply sloped, as a roof.
- Marked by or indicating intense emotion:
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