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What is the adjective for shrilly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shrill which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shrill
  1. High-pitched and piercing.
  2. Sharp or keen to the senses.
  3. Having a shrill voice.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. strident, screeching, piercing, discordant, cacophonous, harsh, sharp, treble, jarring, piping, loud, high, penetrating, raucous, squeaking, squeaky, shrieking, blaring, squawky, whistling, noisy, acute, deafening, metallic, clangorous, strong, intrusive, screechy, thin, earsplitting, shattering, blatant, argute, clanging, high-pitched, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, air-rending, dissonant, grating, shrieky, soprano, unmusical, unmelodious, jangling, stridulous, inharmonious, unharmonious, rasping, squawking … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The man lifted a whistle that hung around his neck and blew into it, causing a sharp, shrill sound to be emitted.”
shriller
  1. comparative form of shrill: more shrill
  2. Synonyms:
      3. higher, higher-pitched, acuter, sharper, more piercing, more strident, shriekier, more penetrating, harsher, louder, squeakier, more discordant, more cacophonous, more dissonant, more jarring, noisier, squawkier, more raucous, more ear-splitting, more unmusical, more unmelodious, more inharmonious, more earsplitting, more unharmonious, more stridulous, more deafening, more metallic, more clamorous, more rasping, hoarser, more stridulant, more booming, janglier, brassier, thinner, screechier, tinnier, more rancid, smellier, more malodorous, ranker, more putrid, more ringing, more clangorous, more thunderous, rougher, more tuneless, stronger, scratchier, more intrusive … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The commander seemed to become shriller and more strident the more I held my tongue in check and treated the board of inquiry with respect.”
      “The harder you blow or the smaller the hole, the shriller the whistle.”
      “The landlady grew all the shriller at that, and silenced my mother impatiently.”
shrillest
  1. superlative form of shrill: most shrill
  2. Synonyms:
      3. harshest, sharpest, loudest, highest, squeakiest, squawkiest, noisiest, acutest, strongest, screechiest, thinnest, highest-pitched, most strident, most piercing, most discordant, most cacophonous, most jarring, most penetrating, most raucous, most deafening, most metallic, most clangorous, most intrusive, most earsplitting, most blatant, most argute, most dissonant, shriekiest, most unmusical, most unmelodious, most inharmonious, most stridulous, most unharmonious, most rasping, most clamorous, most stridulant, rankest, most rancid, most malodorous, most putrid, smelliest, hoarsest, jangliest, most booming, brassiest, most ringing, tinniest, roughest, most thunderous, reediest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The ear seizes the most unseizable sounds in the midst of the shrillest noises.”
      “The women's tongues were the worst, their voices the shrillest, the things they said the ones that stuck in the memory most.”
      “The d.j.s liked to start their sets with the shrillest, crudest songs in order to scandalize the classical crowd.”
shrilled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shrill
  2. Synonyms:
      3. said, cried, pleaded, howled, pled, bleated, squealed, wailed, screeched, shrieked, yelped, begged, peeped, rasped, screamed, shouted, squawked, yelled, yipped, yowled, shright, hollered, squalled, yawped, bawled, bayed, cried out, called out, roared, bellowed, called, clamoured, clamored, whooped, yapped, barked, hooted, ululated, cheered, hailed, caterwauled, cheeped, screaked, grated, thundered, vociferated, hallooed, holloed, boomed, hurrahed … more
shrilling
  1. present participle of shrill
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ringing, trilling, buzzing, chirruping, twittering, warbling, chirping, cheeping, singing, tweeting, peeping, sounding, quavering, pipping, tooting, tootling, squeaking, whistling, chittering, chattering, squealing, piping, jargoning, chirring, tweedling, chipping, chippering, making melody, piping up, singing out, signaling, signalling, skirling, fluting, fifing, hooting, beeping, yelling, shrieking, screaming, screeching, howling, yelping, squalling, crying, wailing, shouting, hollering, bawling … more
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