Synonyms of the word

high-pitched

• adj. Of a sound, having a comparatively high pitch.

adenoidal

• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the adenoids.
• adj. (of a voice) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids.

altissimo

• n. (music) The highest register of a woodwind instrument, or a specific note in this register.

alto

• n. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a…
• n. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.

countertenor

• n. adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range.
• n. male singing voice far higher than the typical male vocal range.
• n. (Older) a part or section performing a countermelody against the tenor or main part.

falsetto

• n. (singing, uncountable) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of…
• n. (music, countable) A person who sings in falsetto.

high

• adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
• adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
• adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
• adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
• adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
• adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality…
• adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
• adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing…
• adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
• adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
• adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haugty, boastful, proud.
• adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
• adj. Large, great (in quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
• adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations…
• adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
• adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
• adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century)…
• adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
• adv. In or to an elevated position.
• adv. In or at a great value.
• adv. In a pitch of great frequency.
• n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
• n. A drug that gives such a high.
• n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
• n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
• n. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
• n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
• v. (obsolete) To rise.
• n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
• v. To hie; to hasten.

inclined

• adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
• adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

nasal

• adj. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose.
• adj. (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft…
• n. An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously,…
• n. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
• n. (phonetics) A nasal vowel or consonant.
• n. (now historical) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
• n. (anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
• n. (zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

peaky

• adj. Sickly; peaked.
• adj. Characterised by peaks.

piercing

• v. present participle of pierce.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to pierce.
• n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it.
• n. The jewelry itself.
• adj. Anything or anyone that pierces.

pinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
• adj. Very thin.
• adj. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
• adj. Compressed.

piping

• v. present participle of pipe.
• n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
• n. The sound of musical pipes.
• n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
• n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
• n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
• n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
• n. Piped icing on a cake.
• n. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
• n. (botany) propagation by cuttings.
• adj. High-pitched.

screaky

• adj. creaky; squeaky.

screechy

• adj. Resembling a screech.
• adj. Given to screeching.

sharp

• adj. Able to cut easily.
• adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
• adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
• adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
• adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
• adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
• adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
• adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
• adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
• adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
• adj. Observant; alert; acute.
• adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
• adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
• adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
• adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
• adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
• adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
• adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
• adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
• adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
• adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
• n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
• n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
• n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
• n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
• n. A sharp tool or weapon.
• n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
• n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
• n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
• n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
• n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
• n. (in the plural) middlings.
• n. (slang, dated) An expert.
• n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
• v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
• v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

shrill

• adj. High-pitched and piercing.
• adj. Sharp or keen to the senses.
• adj. Having a shrill voice.
• v. To make a shrill noise.
• n. A shrill sound.

shrilling

• v. present participle of shrill.
• n. A sound that shrills.

sopranino

• n. (music) a musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano…

soprano

• n. Musical part or section higher in pitch than alto and other sections.
• n. Person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
• v. To sing or utter with high pitch, like a soprano singer.

spiky

• adj. Having spikes, spiny.
• adj. hostile; standoffish.

squeaking

• v. present participle of squeak.
• n. A sound that squeaks.

squeaky

• adj. Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak.

squealing

• v. present participle of squeal.
• n. The sound of one who squeals; a squeal.

tenor

• n. (music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
• n. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
• n. (archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor…
• n. Tone, as of a conversation.
• n. (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
• n. (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
• n. (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
• n. Stamp; character; nature.
• n. (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which…
• n. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport;…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

treble

• adj. Threefold, triple.
• adj. (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• adj. High in pitch; shrill.
• adv. Trebly; triply.
• n. (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• n. (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
• n. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
• n. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
• n. A drink with three portions of alcohol.
• n. (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times…
• n. (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• v. (transitive) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
• v. (intransitive) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
• v. (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.