YELPING Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in squealing

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yelping

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verb

present participle of yelp

as in shrieking

to cry out loudly and emotionally yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head

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Recent Examples of yelping

Adjective

The Dog Pound’s inhabitants will do more yelping than woofing. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026

Verb

In body camera footage of the moment, the dogs can be heard yelping as officers open the back door of the vehicle. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026 How much yelping should a hunter do? — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026 Cantanucci’s property line is 72 feet away, but her hearing is such that the sound of balls bouncing and people yelping jumped the hedgerows. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026 On Monday night, Witt had one of the biggest stars in the game yelping like a Little Leaguer. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Kids pulled in on sleds by their parents are yelping in glee, slipping and sliding around jaws of ice. — Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026 Tomasi can be heard yelping and grabs at her leg when struck, the video shows. — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026 Start the day with yelping sea lions and a Coffee Girl latte at Pier 39, a 150-year-old former cannery, before hitting the town. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping

Adjective

And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game!

— Tomi Lahren OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
An assortment of fake-looking whiny babies in flashy hippie outfits accompany a Lennon rant about the counterculture’s post-’60s disillusionment.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2026

Definition of whiny

Verb

The other customers cowered in the corners, while crowds formed at the windows outside, shrieking and recording the scene on their phones.

— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
Kids are shrieking through their favorite splash pads, faces sticky with Bomb Pop juice and joy.

— Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 2 July 2026

Definition of shrieking

Adjective

That bite and raw intensity produce some of the album’s standout moments, transmuting jungle’s physicality across a wide emotional range with poetic verve and Nia’s woody, vulnerable, yet strident timbre.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
And Paul certainly seems more shaken, less strident than in the previous films, having unleashed a wave of intergalactic bloodletting.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 July 2026

Definition of strident

Verb

After securing the victory over Argentina on Sunday, Yamal’s little brother, Keyne, could be seen running straight into his soccer star brother’s arms and screaming with joy over the win.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
The key is to train the mind to relax, just chill, even though somebody’s at the doorbell, even though somebody’s walking into the kitchen, little kids screaming through the house.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

Definition of screaming

Adjective

Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.

— Stephen A. Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.

— Bryce MillerColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023

Definition of earsplitting

Adjective

One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.

— Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.

— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024

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