Shrill vs Ululate - What's the difference?
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High-pitched and piercing.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Sharp or keen to the senses.
To make a shrill noise.
* Spenser
* Goldsmith
* L. Wallace
to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
to produce a rapid and prolonged series of sharp noises with one's voice.
As verbs the difference between shrill and ululate
is that shrill is to make a shrill noise while ululate is to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy.As an adjective shrill
is high-pitched and piercing.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.
ululate
English
Verb
(ululat)- Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. It was badly stage-managed; for even the rawest investigators must be struck by the absence of the usual feminine ululation .
