outcry

1. 1.

   a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition

   “the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience”

   Synonymscrycallyellshoutvociferation

   Broaderutterance

   Narrowerbellowblue murdercatcallclamorhalloohoothosannanoisescreamwhoop

Other forms of outcry

plural

outcries·

past tense or participle

outcried

present participle

outcrying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about outcry

What does outcry mean?

outcry means "shout louder than". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outcry?

outcry has 2 syllables: out-cry. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌkɹaɪ/.

What is another word for outcry?

Close synonyms include outshout, exclaim, cry, cry out, call out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is outcry a common word?

outcry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with outcry?

2 words rhyme with outcry. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.