shrill

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

1. High-pitched and piercing.
2. Having a shrill voice.
3. Sharp or keen to the senses.
4. (derogatory, especially, figuratively) Fierce, loud, strident.

Verb

To make a shrill noise.

Noun

A shrill sound.

Conceitos

estridente

agudo

cortante

ríspido

acre

penetrante

afiado

picante

repeniçar

chuva-de-pedra

granizo

gritar

pontiagudo

retinir

estrilar

Sinônimos

piercing

high-pitched

sharp

strident

keen

loud

shriek

acute

high

shrilly

bright

trenchant

squeal

harsh

penetrating

pointed

scream

😱

biting

pungent

cutting

acrid

mordacious

mordant

acerb

lurid

squeaky

smart

squeak

waspish

clear

acerbic

screechy

acrimonious

pipe

pipe up

poignant

fly

✈️

edged

buzz

earsplitting

discriminative

bristly

deafening

dazzling

peaked

noisy

nipping

cuspidate

bray

nasty

Traduções

schrill

snibbig

schel

aigu

perçant

strident

scherp

grell

agudo

estridente

stridulo

scharf

schril

bits

elevato

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʃɹɪl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: schrille

Herdado de inglês arcaico: scill

Cognato com inglês médio: skrīke

Cognato com inglês: shell

Cognato com inglês arcaico: scill

Cognato com islandês: skella

Cognato com baixo alemão: schrell

In summary

From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English scill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative.
The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English scill (“sonorous sounding”) and scill (“shell”) existed.
The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”).