1. shrill - Noun
2. shrill - Adjective
3. shrill - Verb
4. shrill - Adjective Satellite
Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
A shrill sound.
To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
Source: Webster's dictionarySome love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. Charles Mackay
We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. Cynthia Heimel
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. Renée Vivien
Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond... Italo Calvino
Perish that thought! No, never be it said That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard. Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain! Conscience, avaunt! Richard 's himself again! Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away! My soul 's in arms, and eager for the fray. Colley Cibber
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. Percy Bysshe Shelley