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shouting

shouting

3 3.5
Writing messages in all capital letters to show strong emotion online
  • noun
  • /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
  • Texting
translation icon : 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
172 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
75 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
2 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
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
3 3.5
exclamation mark
  • UK
3 1.1
italic
1 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.