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screamy

screamy adjective: loud and high-pitched; sounding like a scream.

Adjective

screamy (comparative screamier, superlative screamiest)

  1. Loud and high-pitched; sounding like a scream.
    • Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times
  2. Prone to screaming.

Forms of screamy

comparativescreamier
superlativescreamiest

Origin of screamy

From scream + -y.

Questions about screamy

What does screamy mean?
Screamy means loud and high-pitched; sounding like a scream.
What part of speech is screamy?
Screamy is an adjective.

Words near screamy in the dictionary

  1. screams blue murder
  2. screams for
  3. screams loudest
  4. screams one's head off
  5. screamt
  6. screamy
  7. Screaton
  8. Screatons
  9. Scredington
  10. scree
  11. scree plot

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