Shrill

Quick meaning: Shrill is an adjective meaning High-pitched and piercing.

Meaning

High-pitched and piercing.

More Meanings

1. Having a shrill voice.
2. Sharp or keen to the senses.
3. (figuratively, derogatory, especially of a woman) Fierce, loud, strident.
4. To make a shrill noise.
5. A shrill sound.

Example Sentences

The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.

The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife, shrill, vehement, and fluent.

And all wee dwell in deadly night, / O heauie herſe. / Breake we our pipes, that ſhrild as lowde as Larke, / O carefull verſe.

Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high, / I fear not wave nor wind; / Yet marvel not, Sir Childe, that I / Am sorrowful in mind; [...]

Word Forms

• shriller
• shrillest
• shrills
• shrilling
• shrilled

Synonyms for shrill

Depending on context, synonyms include sharp, shriek, high, screech, piercing, pipe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include screech, shriek, high-pitched, piercing, high, sharp.

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