Usually means: High-pitched, piercing sound quality.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrill: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shrill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shrill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shrill: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shrill, shrill: Wordnik
  8. shrill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shrill: Wiktionary
  10. shrill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shrill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shrill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shrill: Dictionary.com
  14. shrill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shrill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shrill (TV series), Shrill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shrill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shrill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shrill: Rhymezone
  20. shrill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shrill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shrill: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shrill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shrill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shrill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. shrill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shrill: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shrill)

▸ adjective:  High-pitched and piercing.
▸ adjective:  Having a shrill voice.
▸ adjective:  Sharp or keen to the senses.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively, derogatory, especially of a woman) Fierce, loud, strident.
▸ verb:  To make a shrill noise.
▸ noun:  A shrill sound.

Similar:
shriek, screech, pipe up, sharp, high-pitched, piercing, high, pipe, strident, acute, more...

Opposite:
mellow, soft, gentle, soothing, calm

Types:
high-pitched, low-pitched, screechy, nasal, whiny, harsh, grating, more...

Phrases:
shrill gorged, shrill tongued, shrill cry, used in act of producing a shrill noise, shrill sound, more...

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Similar:
shriek, screech, pipe up, sharp, high-pitched, piercing, high, pipe, strident, acute, more...

Opposite:
mellow, soft, gentle, soothing, calm

Types:
high-pitched, low-pitched, screechy, nasal, whiny, harsh, grating, more...

Phrases:
shrill gorged, shrill tongued, shrill cry, used in act of producing a shrill noise, shrill sound, utter a shrill cry, shrill shout, shrill laughter, shrill noise, loud shrill noise, uttering a shrill cry, more...

Colors:
    neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright yellow,     vivid orange, more...



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