screaming

1. 1.

   sharp piercing cry

   “her screaming attracted the neighbors”

   Synonymsscreamshriekshriekingscreechscreeching

   Broadercry
2. 2.

   a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

   “he ducked at the screechings of shells”

   “he heard the scream of the brakes”

   Synonymsscreechscreechingshriekshriekingscream

   Broadernoise

Other forms of screaming

plural

screamings·

comparative

screaminger·

superlative

screamingest·

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 screaming

What does screaming mean?

screaming means "so extremely intense as to evoke screams". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in screaming?

screaming has 2 syllables: screa-ming. The stress falls on "screa". In IPA it is /ˈskɹimɪŋ/.

What is another word for screaming?

Close synonyms include hilarious, uproarious, scream, shriek, shrieking. 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 screaming a common word?

screaming is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.