Shrill vs Screechy - What's the difference?
shrill | screechy |
High-pitched and piercing.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Sharp or keen to the senses.
To make a shrill noise.
* Spenser
* Goldsmith
* L. Wallace
Describing a sound as resembling a screech, or given to screeching.
:She has a screechy voice that really grates on my nerves, like a dentist's drill.
As adjectives the difference between shrill and screechy
is that shrill is high-pitched and piercing while screechy is describing a sound as resembling a screech, or given to screeching.As a verb shrill
is to make a shrill noise.As a noun shrill
is a shrill sound.shrill
English
Adjective
(er)- She spoke in a shrill voice.
- Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give / To sounds confused.
- Let winds be shrill , let waves roll high.
Verb
(en verb)- Break we our pipes, that shrill'd loud as lark.
- No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
- His voice shrilled with passion.