shrill

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ʃɹɪl/

Adjective

derogatory especially figuratively of a complaint or demand

High-pitched and piercing. / Having a shrill voice. / Sharp or keen to the senses. / (figuratively, derogatory, especially of a complaint or demand) Fierce, loud, strident.

Japanese Meaning

高く鋭い音を発するさま、つまり「甲高い」や「刺耳な」状態。 / 声や音が鋭く耳に突き刺さるさま。「甲高い声」を持つという意味。 / 感覚に対して非常に鋭敏に作用する、つまり「鋭い」印象を与える様子。 / 比喩的に、激しく騒がしい、攻撃的な、または強烈なクレームや要求を表す場合に使われる。

What is this buttons?

Her shrill laugh echoed down the empty hallway, making everyone wince.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女の甲高い笑い声が人気のない廊下に響き、みんなを身をすくませた。

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Sense（1）

High-pitched and piercing.

The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.

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Sense（2）

Having a shrill voice.

"It is Miss Halliday!" cried the house-maid, as she opened the door. "And oh my," she added, looking back into the hall with a sorrowful face, "how bad she do look!" … "Oh, don't she look white!" cried a shrill girl with a baby in her arms.

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Sense（3）

Sharp or keen to the senses.

Rather than shrill, feisty whites tasting of grass, green beans, gooseberry or pipi de chat (the somehow more polite French term for cat's pee), [Didier] Dagueneau's Sauvignons were statuesque, beautifully balanced wines with flavors reminiscent of citrus zests, apricot, fig, passion fruit and minerals.

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