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Definition: Screaming |
ScreamingAdjective1. Loud and sustained; shrill and piercing; "hordes of screaming fans"; "a screaming jet plane"; "a screaming fury of sound"; "a screeching parrot"; "screeching brakes"; "a horde of shrieking fans"; "shrieking winds". 2. So extremely intense as to evoke screams; "in screaming agony"; "a screaming rage". 3. Resembling a scream in effect; "screaming headlines"; "screaming colors and designs". 4. Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories". Noun1. Sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors". 2. A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "screaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Aerospace | A form of combustion instability, especially in a liquid-propellant rocket engine, of relatively high frequency and characterized by a high-pitched noise. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A form of periodic combustion instability, especially in turbojet combustors of afterburners and in liquid-propellant rocket engines, occurring at relatively high frequencies and characterized by a high-pitched noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ScreamingSynonyms: hilarious (adj), screaming(a) (adj), screeching(a) (adj), shrieking(a) (adj), uproarious (adj), scream (n), screech (n), screeching (n), shriek (n), shrieking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ridiculousness | Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Screaming |
| English words defined with "screaming": abound ♦ bob, bobsled, bring, bristle, burst ♦ come near ♦ hilarious ♦ redouble ♦ scream, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking ♦ uproarious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "screaming": screaming joint. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "screaming": Striges. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you'll thank me. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) The screaming part I believe (The Last Boy Scout; writing credit: Shane Black.) I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms, like Margaret and Jim and Sarah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it through today (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan) She had become hysterical and she started screaming and I guess I hit her. I don't actually recall, it all happened so quickly (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis) Oh God. One Christmas our dog, Vandi, stole The Baby Jesus from the Nativity scene and my mother ran through the neighborhood in her housecoat screaming 'Vandi you eat that Baby Jesus you're going to Doggy Hell (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | You're screaming out the window at the stars, (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Frontin' screaming thug life (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) Kicking and screaming (Take A Picture; performing artist: Filter) And screaming, yeah, yeah, yeah (Falling Down; performing artist: Free) There's a feeling screaming in the back of my head (If Only; performing artist: Hanson) | |
Clever | The silence of one man can be louder than the screaming of ten boys! (references; author: unknown) Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. (references; author: unknown) I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather… Not screaming and yelling, like the passengers in his car. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) Screaming Skull (1973) The Screaming Woman (1972) Marianne Die Screaming (1971) | |
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 | Suddenly he stopped, then turned about -- screaming in great panic. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Your patient is screaming so, I can't hear a word you say. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | University of California at Berkeley student, screaming "freedom now" being dragged off to jail by police, after sit-in protesting regulations concerning campus politics. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emily Bancker in the screaming comedy, Our flat. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Angry" by Ginger Garvey Commentary: "Sam screaming..." | "Loud" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Screaming guy with red light." |
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 | Latin jazz style piece featuring a typical high screaming trumpet. | | Annoyed monkey screaming. |
| Scared chimpanzee screaming and whimpering. | | Roller coaster ride with people laughing and screaming. |
| Chimpanzee screaming at animal. | | Screaming baby. |
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Emo Philips | I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And he was followed, in his turn, by a frightened little nursemaid, carrying a fat baby, also screaming. |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | The problem arises when the cockerels get confused as to when dawn actually is. They suddenly explode into life, sqwaking and screaming at about one o'clock in the morning |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A crowd had collected around the woman with the broken hand, and her hysteria increased, a screaming quality came into her laughter |
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Health | The disease can also lead to wandering, pacing, and screaming. (references) | |
This may include excessive talking, throat clearing, coughing, inhaling irritants, smoking, screaming, or yelling. (references) | ||
They can begin to exhibit bizarre behaviors such as pacing, wandering, screaming, and physical or verbal aggression. (references) | ||
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David Letterman | Knocking over lights and monitors and screaming at interns and stormed off to the limo. I had to go down and personally coax him out of the car so that we could get him back here. |
Joe Esposito | Unbelievable. I mean, this was all new to me, too, because I never saw the big crowds like this. It was just like you see it on television. People were screaming and yelling, passing out, fainting. |
Sylvia Browne | Oh, and you're screaming in your heads. And you're like this. Oh, it's horrible. You say to God, please let me make a fast exit and entrance. |
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| "Screaming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.71% of the time. "Screaming" is used about 1,013 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.71% | 858 | 8,237 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.4% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.72% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.17% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,013 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "screaming": screaming headlines ♦ Screaming Media ♦ screaming meemies ♦ screaming tty. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "screaming": screaming-point. | |
Ending with "screaming": siren-screaming. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "screaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ulëritës (howler, howling, roarer, roaring, screechy), këlthitës (piping, plangent, vociferate). (various references) | |
Arabic | صياح (brash, crying, hoot, ranting, screech, shouting, shrieking, vociferous, whooping, yelling), صراخ (brash, exclamation, howl, outcry, ranting, yelling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ужасно смешен (excruciating), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), викащ (crying), пищящ. (various references) | |
Chinese | 尖叫 (scream, Screamed, shrieked, shrieking, squeaky). (various references) | |
Czech | jeèící. (various references) | |
Danish | hylende forbrænding (screech). (various references) | |
Dutch | gillen (yell), gieren (cry out, fertilize, scream, shout, skid, whistle). (various references) | |
Finnish | parku (howl). (various references) | |
French | sirènement (screech), voyant, hurlement (scream, screech), cri (scream, screen). (various references) | |
German | schreiend (clamorous, clamouring, crying, flagrant, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, loudly, lurid, rank, shouting, squalling, vociferating, yelling), gellend (jarring, piercing, shrill, shrilly). (various references) | |
Greek | σκούξιμο (hoot), σφύριγμα (catcall, hiss, hoot, whistle, whistling), υψίσυχνος θόρυβος καύσεως (screech). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visító (shrill). (various references) | |
Indonesian | teriakan (bawling, cry, hoot, yell). (various references) | |
Italian | urlante (clamouring), rumorosità (loudness, noisiness). (various references) | |
Korean | 고함침. (various references) | |
Manx | screeaghagh (screeching, shrieker, shrieking), scraghey (scream). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamingscray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | silvo (cantation, fizz, fizzle, hiss, hoot, ping, piping, whistle, zip), penetrante (acerbic, biting, bitter, clear-sighted, discriminating, incisive, in-depth, keen, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, pervasive, piercing, pointed, screamy, searching, sharp, sharply, shooting, shrill, smart, subtil, subtile, subtle), impagável (priceless, screamy), engraçado (amusing, comic, comical, droll, funny, jocose, lively, screamy, witty), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, sportful, sportive, waggish), alto (aloud, altisonant, bump, elevated, great, height, high, high-flown, hightoned, lofty, loud, loudly, rangy, screamy, stand-up, stop, tall, top). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), comic (clownish, comic, comical, comically, droll, funny, humorous, jocular, ludicrous, ludicrously), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, singular, strange, zany), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | уморительный (killing, sidesplitting), кричащий (crying, flashy, florid, garish, gaudy, jazz, loud, nobby, noisy). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgreadail (screeching). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vriskanje (guffaw, shrieking), vrištanje, vika (bawl, clamor, clamour, shouting, whoop, yell), piskav (high pitched, piping, screeching, shrill, strident, treble), da umreš (screamingly). (various references) | |
Spanish | llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, showy, staring, startling, striking), estridente (blatant, brassy, harsh, jangling, loud, raucous, shrill, strident, unpleasant-sounding), chirrido (chirp, chirrup, creak, scrape, scraping, scratch, screak, squeak), chillón (gaudy, harsh, loud, lurid, noisy, screamer, sharp, shrill, startling, tawdry, vocal). (various references) | |
Swedish | skrikande (shouting, shrieking, vociferous). (various references) | |
Turkish | gülmekten öldüren (killingly funny, screamingly funny, sidesplitting, splitting), göz alıcı (attractive, eye-catching, flamboyant, glamorous, glittering, grandiose, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, spectacular, splendiferous, staring, striking), cırtlak (brassy, glaring, screeching, shrill), bağıran, çok komik (damned funny, it's enough to make a cat lough, killing, killingly funny, priceless, screamingly funny, sidesplitting, splitting, very funny), çığlık atan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміховинний (absurd, derisive, derisory, farcical, ridiculous, splitting), пронизливий (acute, argute, brazen, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, searching, shrill, stabbing, thrilling), перешокласний (gilt-edged, super). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thất thanh tức cười, thét lên (screechy), làm cười phá lên, la lên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "screaming": screamingly. (additional references) | |
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"Screaming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scaramanga, screamin, screamming, screeding, Scweaming, Sercambi, skriaig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "screaming" (pronounced skrē"ming) |
| 5 | -r ē" m i ng | dreaming, streaming. |
| 4 | -ē" m i ng | beaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, seeming, steaming, teaming, teeming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-m-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: amercing, carmines, cragsmen, creaming, creasing, cremains, germanic, grimaces, magnesic, smearing. | |
-2 letters: amnesic, anergic, arcsine, armings, arsenic, carmine, carnies, ceasing, cinemas, cringes, earings, engrams, enigmas, erasing, gainers, gamines, germans, germina, gisarme, grimace, imagers, incages, mangers, mangier, margins, marines, mincers, mirages, narcism, racings, reagins, reaming, regains, reginas, remains, sacring, scaring, seaming, searing, seminar, seringa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-m-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: centigrams, scampering. | |
+2 letters: campaigners, charmingest, cinemagoers, miscreating, screamingly. | |
+3 letters: caramelising, centimorgans, descrambling, gastrocnemii, greenbackism, micromanages. | |
+4 letters: benchmarkings, commiserating, counterimages, gastrocnemius, geometricians, greenbackisms, histaminergic, merchandising, micromanagers, spermatogenic. | |
+5 letters: cinematographs, discouragement, laryngectomies, magnetospheric, merchandisings, merchandizings. | |
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