I was walking along the crowded street when all at once I heard a shrill cry.
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Shrill
//ʃɹɪl//
Synonyms for "shrill" (96 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
82 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀξύφωνος adj (having a shrill voice)
Bulgarian
4 entries- писклив adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- писклив adj (having a shrill voice)
- пронизителен adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- рязък adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
Catalan
1 entries- estrident adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刺耳的 adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- 尖聲的 /尖声的 adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Czech
4 entries- hlasitý adj (especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident)
- ječivý adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- ostrý adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- ostrý adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
Danish
1 entries- skinger adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Dutch
2 entries- schel adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- scherp adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
Esperanto
2 entries- strida adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- stridi verb (to make a shrill noise)
Finnish
4 entries- kimakka adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- kimeä adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- kimeä-ääninen adj (having a shrill voice)
- kirpeä adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
French
2 entries- criard adj (having a shrill voice)
- strident adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Galician
2 entries- agudo adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
- estridente adj (high-pitched and piercing)
German
2 entries- scharf adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
- schrill adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Hungarian
1 entries- sipító adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Italian
4 entries- acuto adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
- isterico adj (especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident)
- penetrante adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- squillante adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Japanese
1 entries- 甲高い adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Latin
1 entries- strīdulus adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Latvian
1 entries- spalgs adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Māori
3 entries- tikā adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- tioro adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- tīkākā adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Portuguese
3 entries- agudo adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
- estridente adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- estrídulo adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Russian
3 entries- пронзи́тельный adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- верещать verb (to make a shrill noise)
- визжать verb (to make a shrill noise)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- drečav adj (high-pitched and piercing)
- drečav adj (sharp or keen to the senses)
- drečav adj (especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident)
- kreštav adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Slovene
1 entries- vreščeč adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Spanish
1 entries- estridente adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Swedish
1 entries- gäll adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Tagalog
1 entries- matinis adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Ukrainian
1 entries- прони́зливий adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Welsh
1 entries- main adj (high-pitched and piercing)
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
The child's shout was indeed shrill.
Source: tatoeba (245866)
All at once, I heard a shrill cry.
Source: tatoeba (280691)
All at once she began to shout in a shrill voice.
Source: tatoeba (280721)
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