Words and phrases that have a meaning related to keening: (118 results)
Often used in the same context:
Also try:wails, lullaby, mournful, plangent, quavering, plaintive, dirge, whispery, tremolos, yowl, shrilling, guttural, lilting, yelps, melancholy, trebly, mewl, thrum, tinkles, trilling, tremulous, glissandos, basso, flutelike, tinkly, warble, shrieks, dulcet, descant, sonorous, melody, staccato, tintinnabulation, timbre, crescendos, clangorous, falsetto, cacophonic, yawp, lyricism, caterwaul, sepulchral, obbligato, breathy, diminuendo, squalling, rasp, pizzicato, songlike, fortissimo, lamentations, vocals, croaking, basso profundo, droning, throaty, sopranino, chorded, melancholic, ondes martenot, reedy, songful, mellifluous, elegiac, tessitura, pianissimo, adagios, arpeggios, haunting, throb, moans, whinnies, toneless, incantatory, tympani, intonation, screeching, dissonant, doleful, tunelessly, alto, soulfully, piercingly, raspy, melodiously, altissimo, vibrato, toccata, syncopated, handclaps, sonority, poeticism, howl, cawing, contrabassoon, cor anglais, chromaticism, dreaminess, backbeat, muffled, ballade, dissonances, wail, wailing, howls, moaning, cries, cry, moan, shriek, scream, howling, whistling, screams, screech, squeal, yelp, chanting
— Adjectives for keening: high, pitched, low, shrill, great, wild, soft, loud, mournful, thin, eerie, more...
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