Shrill synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
To utter with a screech
Lofty; exalted
Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
stridulation
A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
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high (related)
Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively large number of sound-wave cycles per second:
Fixed and intense in appearance:
Loud and shrill enough to hurt the ears:
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Making noise:
loud (related)
Clamorous and insistent:
faint (antonym)
Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
Cutting; sharp
calliopean
Of or relating to Calliope
Of crustaceans
An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
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highpitched
Elevated in pitch
The definition of keen is something sharp or intense.
Characterized by such production of sounds
Elevated in pitch
Sharp means having a point or edge that is good for cutting or a sudden change.
Elevated in pitch
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(UK, slang) Good.
Harsh-sounding; shrill; grating
stridulous
Relating to or characterized by stridor.
High-pitched; shrill.
The definition of vivid is something that is bright, intense or full of life.
Rarefied, as air at high altitudes
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clangorous
Making a clangor.
Harsh or rasping
(Public health) serodiscordant
The definition of cacophonus is having a harsh or annoying sound.
soft (antonym)
Having low dissolved mineral content:
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low (antonym)
Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale:
A short, shrill sound
shrillness
(Countable) The result or product of being shrill.
stridor
(Medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
Elevated in pitch
To laugh loudly or hysterically
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Pipe is defined as to move a substance through a hollow cylinder, or to make sound by blowing on a wind instrument with a hollow tube.
To screech or creak
plaintive (related)
wail (related)
muffle (related)
tremulous (related)
mournful (related)
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querulous (related)
hoarse (related)
Find another word for shrill. In this page you can discover 58 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for shrill, like: harsh, deafening, blaring, screech, high-pitched, acute, stridulation, pipe-up, high, sounds and piercing.