Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Crying or sounding shrilly.
- Causing a scream: as, a screaming farce (one calculated to make the audience scream with laughter).
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of scream.
- adj. Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
- adj. Obvious; distinct.
- adj. LGBT, slang Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
- adj. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
- n. sharp piercing cry
- adj. so extremely intense as to evoke screams
- adj. resembling a scream in effect
Examples
“If Lucy is screaming and Tessa is screaming*, I'm running to take care of Tessa.”
“The term screaming buy is rarely used, and we only use it when we feel that we have spotted an investment that is extremely undervalued with incredible upside potential.”
“Breathless and numb, I needed to find one space that didn’t have a tag screaming out, horrifying me.”
Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
“And it just feels odd to have to ignore the people who are waving a finger in the air to signify that they are invisible, or to have to run away screaming from a guy who says something like: "In the name of Kossuth, fear me.”
“Frankly, all this silent screaming is exhausting, so I am respectfully asking the KOS community to use their knowledge, skills and contacts to assist me with what has evolved into a seriously frightening situation.”
The Washington Post: "Jon Taylor & Free Speech in Virginia's 7th"
“A resident of Bucknell Drive said that at 1 a.m., two months ago, he heard his roommate's pet duck screaming from a cage in the backyard.”
The Washington Post: 'Interest' in Md. suspect in duck's death
“But if you are a Republican disrupting a Town Hall meeting held by a Democrat, then shouting/screaming is expected behavior -- with donations somehow becoming available for office-holders who insult the president.”
The Huffington Post: Don C. Reed: Protect the House! Don't Let GOP Bullying Win!
“Everyone “talks” in screaming matches or passionately dramatic declarations.”
“Assuring him that she won't run screaming from the office, unlike, say, Don's former longtime secretary Alison, if they have an off-the-record/you're the boss relationship, Megan quite efficiently seduces the at first reluctant older man.”
“Well, for one, the screaming is replaced by a drastic onslaught of "dude.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘screaming’.
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broken
unable, to, complete, request, sorry, something, has, gone, terribly, wrong, When, the and 35 more...
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bootload's Words
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Tunie: French Perfume
By Great Big Sea on their CD "Sea of No Cares," 2002.
It's of a bold young smuggler
From Fortune he did sail
He rode the waves from St. Pierre
And he never saw the jailfoggy, cold, fire, lit up, sky, clicks, fifty, rocks, choir, banshee, angry, lifting and 35 more...
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pynchonesque
fondue, codicil, variorum, blowgun, disk jockey, malfunctioning, convoluted, grabassing, tranquilizers, hieroglyphic, hypodermic, diffusion and 83 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for screaming.
reesetee HAHA! Oct 5, 2009
bilby "Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the 'Ellie May,' a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests."
- David McKenzie. Oct 3, 2009