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shrill

English

  1. 🔊 of colors that are bright and gaudy
    “a shrill turquoise”
  2. 🔊 having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
    “a shrill whistle”
  3. 🔊 being sharply insistent on being heard
    “strident demands”
  4. 🔊 utter a shrill cry

Similar words

shriek pipe up pipe strident sharp absonant acute argute atonal cacophonous caterwaul cracked creak creaky diaphonic disconsonant discordant disharmonic disharmonious dissonant ear-piercing ear-splitting flat grating