 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
loud
adjective
1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or
intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder";
"her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: {soft}]
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy},
{cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy}, {gimcrack},
{meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]
3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the
forte passages in the composition" [syn: {forte}] [ant: {piano}]
adverb: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she
spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for
those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried
aloud for help" [syn: {loudly}, {aloud}] [ant: {softly}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Loud \Loud\, adverb [AS. hl[=u]de.]
With loudness; loudly.
To speak loud in public assemblies. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Loud \Loud\ (loud), adjective [Compar. {Louder} (loud"[~e]r); superl.
{Loudest}.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hl[=u]d; akin to OS. hl[=u]d,
D. luid, OHG. l[=u]t, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus,
inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr.
klyto's heard, loud, famous, kly'ein to hear, Skr. [,c]ru.
[root]41. Cf. {Client}, {Listen}, {Slave} a serf.]
1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy;
striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud
thunder.
They were instant with loud voices, requiring that
he might be crucified. --Luke xxiii.
23.
2. Clamorous; boisterous.
She is loud and stubborn. --Prov. vii.
11.
3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united
effort. [Colloq.]
4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a
loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]
Syn: Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous;
turbulent; blustering; vehement.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "loud":
aloud, blaring, blatant, blinding, booming, brassy, brazen,
brazenfaced, chintzy, clamant, clamorous, coarse, colorful, crass,
crude, crying, deafening, demanding, draining, ear-piercing,
ear-rending, ear-splitting, earsplitting, earthshaking, earthy,
exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, flagrant,
flaring, flashy, flaunting, forte, fortemente, fortissimo, full,
fulminating, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, grasping, gross,
harsh, hoarse, importunate, in full cry, insistent, instant,
intense, jazzy, loud-sounding, loudish, loudly, lurid, lustily,
meretricious, noisily, noisy, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive,
offensive, ostentatious, overbright, pealing, penetrating,
persistent, pertinacious, piercing, plangent, pressing, pungent,
raucous, raw, reeking, resonant, resounding, resoundingly, ribald,
ringing, ringingly, roaring, rough, rude, screaming, sensational,
shameless, showy, shrieking, snazzy, sonorous, spectacular,
splashy, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stertorous,
strident, tasteless, tawdry, taxing, thundering, thunderous,
tinsel, tonitruant, tonitruous, uproariously, urgent, vulgar,
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