Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus / ear-piercing
FEEDBACK

ear-piercing

See definition of ear-piercing on Dictionary.com
  • as inblaring
  • as indeafening
  • as inloud
  • as inraucous
  • as inroaring
  • as inshrill

synonyms for ear-piercing

  • blasting
  • deafening
  • earsplitting
  • piercing
  • booming
  • roaring
  • noisy
  • stentorian
  • thunderous
  • discordant
  • harsh
  • loud
  • strident
  • absonant
  • acute
  • atonal
  • blaring
  • blatant
  • brusque
  • cacophonous
  • dissonant
  • dry
  • grating
  • grinding
  • gruff
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • inharmonious
  • jarring
  • piercing
  • rasping
  • sharp
  • squawking
  • stertorous
  • thick
  • unharmonious
  • unmusical
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 212 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ear-piercing, such as: blasting, deafening, earsplitting, piercing, booming, and roaring.
QUIZ
This Word Of The Day Quiz Is Truly Prismatic!
START THE QUIZ

How to use ear-piercing in a sentence

Then with one loud ear-piercing shriek thrown back on the wind—see!
THE MAYOR'S WIFEANNA KATHERINE GREEN
His rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution, and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Bill Hayes, he of the gray mustache and the ear-piercing faller's cry, was a "long-stake" man.
THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
No one has ever more skilfully communicated his own disenchantment; no one ever blown a more ear-piercing note of sadness.
FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKSROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
But he jumped up, and ran down to the shore, and sent an ear-piercing yell across the water.
PETER COTTERELL'S TREASURERUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND
Miss Everett uttered an ear-piercing shriek and 311 sprang up, to run madly from the spot.
WYN'S CAMPING DAYSAMY BELL MARLOWE
We had nearly finished when, from the road outside, there came a prolonged ear-piercing wail, that made the window-panes tremble.
GUY LIVINGSTONE;GEORGE A. LAWRENCE
A wild, barbaric chant flowed from their mouths, weird and ear-piercing, rising and falling like the waves of the sea.
THE HARLEQUIN OPAL, VOL. 2 (OF 3)FERGUS HUME
Nobody else appeared at the broken window or the open door, but suddenly she heard an ear-piercing shriek from within.
NAN SHERWOOD AT LAKEVIEW HALLANNIE ROE CARR
The tenor, treble, and bass of these ear-piercing choristers are so decisively discriminated, that we all but hear them.
THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH: IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGSJOHN TRUSLER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
Choose the synonym for future
capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO EAR-PIERCING

  • blasting
  • booming
  • deafening
  • ear-piercing
  • earsplitting
  • noisy
  • piercing
  • roaring
  • stentorian
  • thunderous
  • absonant
  • acute
  • atonal
  • blaring
  • blatant
  • brusque
  • cacophonous
  • discordant
  • dissonant
  • dry
  • ear-piercing
  • grating
  • grinding
  • gruff
  • harsh
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • inharmonious
  • jarring
  • loud
  • piercing
  • rasping
  • sharp
  • squawking
  • stertorous
  • strident
  • thick
  • unharmonious
  • unmusical
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.