shrill English

Meaning shrill meaning

What does shrill mean?

shrill

— adjective (= sharp) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones a shrill whistle a shrill gaiety

— verb utter a shrill cry

— adjective of colors that are bright and gaudy a shrill turquoise

— adjective (= strident) being sharply insistent on being heard strident demands shrill criticism

Synonyms shrill synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as shrill?

shrill English » English

piercing

sharp

high-pitched

strident

keen

shriek

loud

high

acute

trenchant

squeal

shrilly

scream

pointed

penetrating

harsh

bright

waspish

squeaky

squeak

smart

screechy

pungent

poignant

pipe up

pipe

mordant

mordacious

lurid

cutting

clear

biting

acrimonious

acrid

acerbic

acerb

wild

whoop

twanging

tinny

tart

tard

stiff

squealing

squeaking

spiky

snappy

slick

sing

shout out

Topics shrill topics

What do people use shrill to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds

• What words describe a bad sound?
  discordant bad disharmony racket raucous shrill strident grating

Language and thought Communication Say

Voice

• What words describe a sound or voice that is high on the musical scale?
  high high-pitched piercing shrill squeaky tinny

Examples shrill examples

How do I use shrill in a sentence?

Simple sentences

All at once, I heard a shrill cry.

Movie subtitles

Peace, children, and from your shrill reviling cease!

Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give to sounds confused.

I have heard the cock, that is the herald to the morn, doth, with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat, awake the god of day.

The child's voice is very shrill when she gets upset.

I'm told that what we will hear at this end will be a high, shrill sound.

By the superior forces available to shrill. Anyway, john, you can catch the 11:30 from hornchurch And be at basingstoke by 1:00.

Or Shrill petrol, with the new additive GLC-9424075,. after 6:00 p. m., 9424047.

One night, a hunter woke up before dawn and heard a child singing in a high shrill voice,. soon after the voice stopped, and he heard shrieking screams and weeping.

And I was married for 33 years of shrill, shrieking fraud.

Last night I was awakened from a fitful sleep. shortly after 2:00 in the morning. by a shrill, sibilant, faceless voice.

Crusher gets more shrill with each passing year.

A bit shrill for a flute.

A rotating band pulse might do it, but it wouldn't be much more than a shrill whistle.

Why am I getting so shrill?

She had thick thighs and her high notes were so shrill!

Well, we were having a family row. The child's voice is very shrill when she gets upset.

There are also shrill, horrible rings.

Or Shrill petrol, with the new additive GLC-9424075,. after 6:00 p.m., 9424047.

Last night, I was awakened from a fitful sleep shortly after 2:00 in the morning by a shrill, sibilant, faceless voice.

Sashio was converted to the use of Hartileas B by her husband and had alterations made to her mouth cavities to better accommodate the shrill characteristics of that language.

Judging from the shrill tone, I'd say they were husband and wife.

If God didn't want other people to hear it, he wouldn't have made it so shrill.

I imitated the rolling wheels, rubbing against the tracks the shrill cries of lady passengers and Lili joined me in screaming.

To my loving wife - ting, ting, ting, ting - whose shrill cry scares the mastodon - ting, ting, ting, ting - l leave this stick.

Was it full shrill, dark, light?

I always hated her shrill voice.

And, on your lips, it is shrill and hollow and tuneless.

If you even shrill of this, we'll burn your store. Clear?

I was not shrill. I was resonant.

I was striving for noncommittal, but I was worried I had bordered on shrill.

Or she could fall off a ferry and be pulled down under the water, the roar of the waves drowning out her cries for help, until no one could hear that shrill voice of hers, not ever again.

And I will look at you the same way I always have-- as a spoiled, shrill, gold-digging socialite who would sooner chew off her own foot than do an honest day's work.

He's just so shrill and loud and piercing.

Just then, as the rest of the convoy was taken away, the air started filling with shouts and screams and the shrill cries of geese. Yes, geese.

Get rid of her, obsessive and shrill!

Shrill?

News and current affairs

If so, pundits might adapt to accountability by showing more humility, and political debate might begin to sound less shrill.

Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics. Consider Martin Wolf, a columnist at The Financial Times.

Yet the reactions to his sad plight, especially in France, have been oddly shrill.

Though Netanyahu's shrill words still have an attentive audience in the US, most of Europe regards his position as being only a little short of ridiculous.

Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.