screaming

1. 1.

   so extremely intense as to evoke screams

   “in screaming agony”

   “a screaming rage”

   Similarintense
2. 2.

   resembling a scream in effect

   “screaming headlines”

   “screaming colors and designs”

   Similarsensational
3. 3.

   marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter

   “hilarious broad comedy”

   “a screaming farce”

   “uproarious stories”

   Synonymshilariousuproarious

   Similarhumorous

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.