Thesaurus:sibilation

Thesaurus

sibilation

English

Noun

Sense: a hissing sound

Synonyms

• groove fricative
• hiss
• sibilating
• sibilation
• siss (US, colloquial)

Hyponyms

• fizzle
• sizzling
• swish
• swoosh
• whish
• whisper
• whistle
• whiz
• whizzle (British dialect)
• whoosh
• zip
• zing

Hypernyms

• sound    [⇒ thesaurus]

Variance

• sibilance
• sigmatism

Further reading

• “409. sibilation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sibilation” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.