Synonyms of the word hiss


HISSBIRD - BOO - CALL - CONDEMN - CRY - EMIT - FIZZLE - GO - HISSING - HOOT - HUSHING - LOCOMOTE - MOUTH - MOVE - NOISE - OUTCRY - RASPBERRY - RAZZ - RAZZING - SHOUT - SIBILATE - SIBILATION - SISS - SIZZ - SNORT - SPEAK - TALK - TRAVEL - UTTER - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE - VOCIFERATION - WHOOSH - YELL

hiss

  • n. A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
  • n. An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with a hissing sound.

bird

  • n. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having…
  • n. (slang) A man, fellow.
  • n. (Britain, US, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Girlfriend.
  • n. (slang) An airplane.
  • n. (slang) A satellite.
  • n. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
  • v. To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
  • v. To catch or shoot birds.
  • v. (figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
  • n. A prison sentence.
  • n. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
  • n. (Asian slang) A penis.

boo

  • interj. A loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child. Usually used when one has been hidden…
  • interj. A word used ironically in a situation where one might have scared someone, but said someone was not scared…
  • interj. An exclamation used by a member or many members of an audience, as at a stage play or sports game, to…
  • n. A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
  • v. (intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.
  • v. (transitive) To derisively shout extended boos at.
  • n. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) A close acquaintance or significant other.

call

  • n. A telephone conversation.
  • n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
  • n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
  • n. A cry or shout.
  • n. A decision or judgement.
  • n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
  • n. A beckoning or summoning.
  • n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
  • n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
  • n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
  • n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
  • n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
  • n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  • n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  • n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  • n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  • n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  • n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
  • n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  • n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
  • n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
  • v. (heading) To use one's voice.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
  • v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
  • v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
  • v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  • v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

condemn

  • v. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  • v. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • v. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
  • v. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • v. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work…
  • v. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • v. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
  • v. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit…

cry

  • v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
  • v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
  • v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
  • v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
  • n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
  • n. A shout or scream.
  • n. Words shouted or screamed.
  • n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
  • n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
  • n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
  • n. A desperate or urgent request.
  • n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

emit

  • v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

fizzle

  • v. To sputter or hiss.
  • v. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
  • n. A spluttering or hissing sound.
  • n. Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hissing

  • v. present participle of hiss.
  • n. The sound of a hiss.

hoot

  • n. A derisive cry or shout.
  • n. The cry of an owl.
  • n. (US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny).
  • n. A small particle.
  • v. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  • v. To make the cry of an owl.
  • v. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

hushing

  • v. present participle of hush.
  • n. The act of one who hushes, or calls for silence.
  • n. The use of a heavy discharge of water to uncover a mineral vein or wash ore.

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

noise

  • n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
  • n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
  • n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
  • n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
  • n. Rumour or complaint.
  • n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
  • n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
  • v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

outcry

  • n. a loud cry or uproar.
  • n. a strong protest.
  • v. (intransitive) To cry out.
  • v. (transitive) To cry louder than.

raspberry

  • n. The plant Rubus idaeus.
  • n. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
  • n. The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
  • n. A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
  • adj. Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
  • adj. Of a dark pinkish red.
  • v. To gather or forage for raspberries.
  • n. (pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out…
  • n. (pejorative, colloquial) A cripple.
  • v. (colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.

razz

  • n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
  • v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
  • v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

razzing

  • v. present participle of razz.

shout

  • n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing…
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot;…
  • n. (Britain, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
  • n. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme. (also shout…
  • v. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention,…
  • v. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out.
  • v. (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
  • v. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.

sibilate

  • v. To hiss.
  • v. To speak with a hissing sound.

sibilation

  • n. A hissing sound.

siss

  • n. (US, colloquial) A hissing noise.
  • v. (US, colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.

sizz

  • n. (rare or archaic) fizz.
  • v. (rare or archaic) To fizz.

snort

  • n. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
  • n. (slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort…
  • n. (slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

vociferation

  • n. The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

whoosh

  • n. A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
  • v. To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
  • interj. (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (as though it were flying overhead).

yell

  • v. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
  • v. (transitive) to convey by shouting.
  • n. A shout.
  • n. A phrase to be shouted.
  • adj. (Ulster) dry (of cow).

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