Word Meanings - HISSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of emitting a hiss or hisses. 2. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HISSING)

• Sibilation
• Hissing
• outcry
• disfavor

Related words: (words related to HISSING)

• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• DISFAVORABLE
  Unfavorable. Stow.
• DISFAVORER
  One who disfavors. Bacon.
• HISSINGLY
  With a hissing sound.
• HISSING
  1. The act of emitting a hiss or hisses. 2. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.
• OUTCRY
  1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor. 2. Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.
• DISFAVOR
  1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 . Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone. 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state
• HISS
  1. To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound
• SIBILATION
  Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.
• ASSIBILATION
  Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.