Shrill

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  • adjective. High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound.
  • adjective. Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound.
  • adjective. Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid.
  • intransitive verb. To utter in a shrill manner; scream.
  • intransitive verb. To produce a shrill cry or sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • noun. A keen or piercing sound.
  • In a shrill manner; shrilly.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
  • noun. A shrill sound.
  • intransitive verb. To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
  • transitive verb. To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. High-pitched and piercing.
  • adjective. Sharp or keen to the senses.
  • verb. To make a shrill noise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. utter a shrill cry
  • adjective. of colors that are bright and gaudy
  • adjective. being sharply insistent on being heard
  • adjective. having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
  • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    dull  low  sweet  
    cross-reference
    cry  exclaim  
    Equivalent
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absonant  acute  acute  argute  atonal  
    verb-form