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shouting

shouting

1 3.5
Writing messages in all capital letters to show strong emotion online
  • noun
  • /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
  • Texting
: uso de mayúsculas
  • When sending an email, remember that using all capital letters is considered shouting.

Examples

  • Just a friendly reminder, when you use all caps, it represents shouting.

    Blog text (3)

  • In online discussions, shouting can lead to misunderstandings and conflict.

  • It is important to get the truth on the table in written form before the shouting starts.

    Blog text (30)

  • The fact that many other groups have independently arrived at the same conclusions seems to have gotten lost under the shouting as well.

    Blog text (9)

  • My belief is that shouting achieves nothing.

  • His mother and brother, and maybe half a dozen friends, leave care packages and little notes written on the spot and long letters on good stationery neatly folded, his name in big shouting letters.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Some people think that shouting in text makes their message more important.

Synonyms

yelling
vsshouting
113 1.0

A loud shout showing pain, anger or strong feeling

is expressed by typing words in all capitals to show emphasis or anger
yell
vsshouting
38 1.0

A loud, sudden shout made when you feel strong pain, anger or excitement

is expressed by typing in all capital letters to show emphasis or anger

Antonyms

lowercase
16 1.8

Written using small letters, not capital letters

Idioms

all over but the shouting
  • Informal
1 9.2

The result is already decided and only small steps remain

all over bar the shouting
  • UK
1 9.9

Only small formal steps remain before the result is final

Compounds

shouting match
  • Informal
7 3.8

A noisy argument in which people try to shout louder than each other

How Emphatic

shouting
  • Texting
1 3.5
exclamation mark
  • UK
5 1.1
italic
8 4.3

Surface Forms

shouting singular
shoutings plural

Morphology

shouting = shout (semi-transparent) = shout + ing

Formally a gerund of 'shout', but the sense 'typing in all caps' is a conventionalized pragmatic/metaphorical extension that relies on communicative norms rather than strict compositional meaning.

Etymology

Shouting is also used for writing in ALL CAPS. People started calling all-capital letters 'shouting' because capitals look like a loud voice on the page, so using ALL CAPS feels like 'yelling' in writing.