high-pitched

[ hahy-picht ]
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adjective
  1. Music. played or sung at a high pitch.

  2. emotionally intense:a high-pitched argument.

  1. (of a roof) having an almost vertical slope; steep.

Origin of high-pitched

1
First recorded in 1585–95

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How to use high-pitched in a sentence

  • I can hear her highpitched complaining voice bargaining with me over the cost of inoculating her lawn.

  • The sudden noisy clamor of many voices, highpitched and excited, floated out to them under the hot sky.

    The Prodigal Judge | Vaughan Kester

British Dictionary definitions for high-pitched

high-pitched

adjective
  1. pitched high in volume or tone: See high (def. 10)

  2. (of a roof) having steeply sloping sides

  1. (of an argument, style, etc) lofty or intense

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