English Dictionary

shrill

/ʃɹɪl/

adj

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.

Her shrill voice could be heard from across the room.

意味（1）

High-pitched and piercing.

The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（4）

(figuratively, derogatory, especially of a complaint or demand) Fierce, loud, strident.

The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife, shrill, vehement, and fluent.