| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blaring, noisy |
Synonyms: |
big, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, roaring, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
Antonyms: |
inaudible, low, quiet, soft, subdued |
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, gaudy |
Synonyms: |
brash, brassy, brazen, chintzy, coarse, crass, crude, flamboyant, flashy, garish, glaring, gross, lurid, meretricious, obnoxious, obtrusive, ostentatious, raucous, rude, showy, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
inoffensive, quiet, soft, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
loud, big sounding, callithumpian, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, deep, ear-deafening, ear-rending, ear-splitting, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake the seven sleepers, fremescent, full, high-sounding, hypnopompic, megalophonic, multisonous, noisy, obstreperous, perstreperous, piercing, polyphloisboian, powerful, rackety, randan, raucous, routous, shrill, sonorous, stentophonic, stentorian, stertorous, strepent, thundering, tonant, tonitruous, trumpet-tongued, uproarious
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| Main Entry: | almighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe |
Synonyms: |
awful, desperate, enormous, excessive, extreme, great, intense, loud, terrible |
Antonyms: |
weak |
| Main Entry: | audible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be heard |
Synonyms: |
aural, auricular, clear, deafening, detectable, discernible, distinct, hearable, loud, loud enough, perceptible, plain, resounding, roaring, sounding, within earshot |
Antonyms: |
inaudible |
| Main Entry: | blatant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obvious; brazen |
Synonyms: |
arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, crying, flagrant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, glitzy, impudent, loud, meretricious, naked, obtrusive, ostentatious, outright, overbold, overt, plain, prominent, pronounced, protrusive, screaming, shameless, sheer, showy, snazzy, unabashed, unblushing, unmitigated |
| Notes: | flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant |
Antonyms: |
inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, unpronounced |
| Main Entry: | blatant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deafening |
Synonyms: |
boisterous, clamorous, crying, ear-splitting, harsh, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, obtrusive, piercing, screaming, scurrilous, strident, vociferant, vociferous, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silent |
| Main Entry: | boisterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy and mischievous |
Synonyms: |
bouncy, brawling, clamorous, disorderly, effervescent, impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous, rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet, restrained, silent |
| Main Entry: | bold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, striking |
Synonyms: |
clear, colorful, conspicuous, definite, evident, eye-catching, flashy, forceful, lively, loud, manifest, plain, prominent, pronounced, showy, spirited, strong, vivid |
Antonyms: |
faint, fair, light |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
Synonyms: |
bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |