screaming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːmɪŋ/

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Verb

screaming

1. present participle and gerund of scream
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:scream.

Adjective

screaming (comparative more screaming, superlative most screaming)

1. Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
2. Obvious; distinct.
3. (informal) First-rate; splendid.
   • 1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569:

     All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.

4. (informal) Hilariously funny; calculated to make people roar with laughter.

   a screaming farce

5. (gay slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.

   Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!

Synonyms

• screeching
• shrieking

Derived terms

• no screaming hell
• screamingest
• screamingly
• screaming meemies
• screaming sixties
• screaming trots

Noun

screaming (plural screamings)

1. A scream.
   • 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland:

     The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.

Derived terms

• screaming match

Anagrams

• Germanics, creamings