screaming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scream

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:scream.”

adj

1. Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
2. Obvious; distinct.
3. (informal)First-rate; splendid.

   “All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.”

4. (informal)Hilariously funny; calculated to make people roar with laughter.

   “a screaming farce”

5. (slang)Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.

   “Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!”

noun

1. A scream.

   “The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.”