Loud
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English
Adjective
Loud (comparative Louder, superlative Loudest)
- Of a sound, of great intensity.
- Of a person, event, etc, noisy.
- Of a person, event, etc, non-subtle, brash.
- Of a color, clothing, etc, having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns.
Adverbs for Loud
boisterously; terribly; crashingly; fearfully; impressively; unbelievably; clamorously; deafeningly; tumultuously; infernally; uncommonly; strangely; unnecessarily; unduly; appallingly; shockingly; thunderously; tempestuously; shrilly; objectionably; explosively; unmistakably; insufferably; unbearably.
Thesaurus
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, window-rattling
Etymology
Old English hlūd (“loud”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūþaz (“heard”) (compare Dutch luid, German laut), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, fame”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-; akin to Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin inclutus (“famous”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klútós, “famous”), Albanian quaj, quej (“to call, name”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”). More at listen.
