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High-pitched   /haɪ-pɪtʃt/   Listen
adjective
high-pitched  adj.  
1.
High in pitch or frequency; used of sounds and voices. Opposite of low. (Narrower terms: adenoidal, pinched, nasal; altissimo; alto; countertenor, alto; falsetto; peaky, spiky; piping; shrill, sharp; screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing; soprano, treble; sopranino; tenor)
Synonyms: high.
2.
Set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched roof.
Synonyms: steeply pitched, steep.





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"High-pitched" Quotes from Famous Books



... side. At the north end is the Pavilion des Officiers espagnols, once the Town Hall, and, in the days of the Spanish occupation, the headquarters of the army for the district. It is an old Flemish building, solidly built, with high-pitched roof, and windows framed in ornamental stonework, ending in a big square tower with battlements and little turrets at its corners. A short outside staircase leads up to the entrance. The whole building ...
— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar
... the stretch of woods, arose a sound, incessant, high-pitched—a sustained treble cadence, nearer, nearer, louder, shriller, like the excited cry of a hunting pack, bursting into a paroxysm of hysterical chorus as a long line of gray men leaped from the wood's edge and swept headlong toward ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... had been a corner. The red-tiled roof was so high-pitched as to be almost perpendicular. The dormer windows of the attics were as picturesque as anything in Nuremberg. The side-walls were broken in their surface by little odd red-tiled roofs covering projecting casements, and the house was shored ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... with many decorations on his breast, stepped to the edge of the platform, glanced at his wrist-watch and said in a high-pitched voice: "Gentlemen of the University, I trust you have carefully read the proclamation of Field Marshal von Kluck. Be sure that any disorder during the execution of hostages that is now to take place will bring swift and terrible punishment upon ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... islands," Mrs Davidson went on in her high-pitched tones, "we've practically eradicated the lava-lava. A few old men still continue to wear it, but that's all. The women have all taken to the Mother Hubbard, and the men wear trousers and singlets. ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham


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