SHOUTS Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

shouts 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of shout

as in yells

to speak so as to be heard at a distance well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock

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shouts

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noun

plural of shout

as in howls

a loud vocal expression of strong emotion I gave a sudden shout of surprise when the shower abruptly turned ice-cold

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Recent Examples of shouts

Verb

In the background, an adult voice shouts at the bear, helping to scare the animal off. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026 If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right? — Emily Holshouser july 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026 Taylor Swift shouts out her fiancé during their first awards show joint appearance. — Elizabeth Gulino, InStyle, 2 July 2026 Sirens, horns, and shouts to evacuate rang out in the West Bottoms and along Southwest Boulevard all morning, but the speed of the flooding still caught everyone off guard. — Kansas City Public Library Staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Roaring and grunting, his body sleek with blood and sweat, Conan tussles and grapples with a series of opponents, dominating them all, while an audience of torch-wielding vulgarians shouts and howls at the pit’s lip. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026 Patchett shouts out fellow authors in the novel, including George Saunders, Paul Murray and Kiran Desai. — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 2 June 2026 As promised, Ali shoots him, and as everyone panics and hits the floor, Ali shouts that Alamo Brown needs to come out. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 June 2026

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On the side of the highway, the night is a cacophony of blaring horns and the shouts of drunken men. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 There were possible penalty shouts, hard tackles that were not whistled for fouls, soft calls on Egypt that were ignored when similar plays were made by Argentina. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 The fatal shooting of a New York Knicks fan’s dog after her shouts over the team’s thrilling win of the NBA championship is now headed to federal court. — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 The majority of fans on the Long Island, New York property appeared to be pulling against the Colorado native with countless shouts for his golf ball to find bunkers and minor roars after each of his five bogeys during the final round. — Mark Harris, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026 Not everyone could get to San Antonio, but their shouts may well have been heard in Texas. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026 Stick with alcohol-free, subtle formulas so the scent settles into the fabric rather than shouts from it. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026 Gone are the shouts, squeals, and Bowie impressions of 2022’s Freewave Lucifer fck. — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 9 June 2026 At times, the school board auditorium broke out into shouts between the groups who supported Alzubi’s reassignment and those who opposed it. — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shouts

Verb

Boos against opponents and bad referees and yells at your side to do better was the Spirit moving you to testify.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder yells a lot of things from the dugout during a game, usually aimed at his own players.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026

Definition of yells

Noun

Somewhere in the heated mist hovered the howls of Albert Ayler and the clarion call of his brother Donald’s trumpet, followed by the Ornette Coleman Quartet, saluting him with joyous cacophony.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
Many American poets have written hymns and howls, declarations and outcries for this country that brims with so many people, and so many hopes, from all over the world.

— Scott Simon, NPR, 4 July 2026

Definition of howls

Noun

Two soldiers who initially seemed kind took her into the jungle, held her at gunpoint and raped her while holding her mouth shut to stifle her screams.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Bernthal screams, pointing down at the vomit (which is thankfully off-screen for the rest of us).

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 July 2026

Definition of screams

Verb

The Blackhawks dressing room was a rowdy scene after the game, their hoots and hollers reverberating throughout the bowels of the United Center.

— Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025