screaming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scream

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comparative more screaming · superlative most screaming

1. Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
2. Obvious; distinct.
3. informalFirst-rate; splendid.

   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.

   1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569

4. informalHilariously funny; calculated to make people roar with laughter.

   a screaming farce

5. slangLGBTEffeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.

   Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!

plural screamings

1. A scream.

   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.

   1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland