BELL-LIKE CALL Antonyms

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• being sharply insistent on being heard

• of colors that are bright and gaudy

• utter a shrill cry