keened Sentence Examples
- The wind keened through the gaps in the walls, sending shivers down their spines.
- The child keened in anguish as she lost her favorite toy.
- The music keened and wailed, expressing the sorrow of the bereaved.
- The ghost keened mournfully, its ethereal cries echoing through the empty house.
- The animals in the forest keened in concert, their voices rising and falling in a haunting symphony.
- The abandoned dog keened pitiably, longing for a home and love.
- The keening sound of the ambulance sirens pierced the silence of the night.
- The wind keened like a banshee, carrying the promise of a storm.
- The injured soldier keened softly, his voice weak from pain.
- The wolves keened in the distance, their mournful cries signaling the approach of winter.
keened Meaning
keened
sharply contested, intense, seeming to cut or sting, very sensitive (as in seeing or hearing), very enthusiastic or excited about, a mourning for the dead with loud wails, pungent to the sense, having a fine edge or point, having a sharp edge or point, full of enthusiasm, shrewdly astute, a lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice or sometimes in a wordless cry, wonderful, excellent, very nice, to utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry, affecting one as if by cutting, to lament, mourn, or complain loudly, intellectually alert, showing a quick and ardent responsiveness, to mourn in a loud wailing voice, to make a sound suggestive of a loud cry of sorrow, eager, having or showing mental sharpness, extremely sensitive in perception, to make a loud and long cry of sorrow
Synonyms & Antonyms of keened
Synonyms:
- nagged
- bleated
- yowled
- bitched
- hollered
- beefed
- carped
- murmured
- whinged
- whimpered
- inveighed
- grouched
- repined
- wailed
- yawped
- crabbed
- yammered
- fussed
- grumbled
- croaked
- kvetched
- griped
- grizzled
- cried
- kicked-up-a-fuss
- grumped
- squealed
- growled
- squawked
- caterwauled
- groused
- worried
- kicked
- protested
- bellyached
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word keened
sharply contested, intense, seeming to cut or sting, very sensitive (as in seeing or hearing), very enthusiastic or excited about, a mourning for the dead with
muttered, screamed, moaned,complained, whined, nagged, bleated, yowled, bitched, hollered
rejoiced, took, tolerated, endured, accepted,delighted, bore, commended, crowed, applauded
The wind keened through the gaps in the walls, sending shivers down their spines.
The child keened in anguish as she lost her favorite toy.
The music keened and wailed, expressing the sorrow of the bereaved.
The ghost keened mournfully, its ethereal cries echoing through the empty house.
