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| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blaring, noisy |
| Synonyms: | big, blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, clamorous, deafening, deep, emphatic, forte, full, heavy, intense, lusty, obstreperous, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, blustering, booming, crashing, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, full-mouthed, fulminating, high-sounding, loud-voiced, pealing, resounding, ringing, roaring, thundering, turned up, 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 |
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| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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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: | audible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be heard |
| Synonyms: | auricular, clear, deafening, discernible, distinct, loud, perceptible, plain, aural, detectable, hearable, loud enough, resounding, roaring, sounding, within earshot |
| Antonyms: | inaudible |
| Main Entry: | boisterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy and mischievous |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, disorderly, effervescent, impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous, rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild, bouncy, brawling, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, restrained, silent |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, swinish, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brazen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brash, unashamed |
| Synonyms: | audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, defiant, flashy, flip, forward, gritty, gutsy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, loud, meretricious, nervy, pert, saucy, shameless, spunky, tawdry, contumelious, hotshot, overbold, smart-alecky, smart-ass, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shamed, shamefaced, shy, timid |
| Main Entry: | clarion |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, stirring sound |
| Synonyms: | definite, inspiring, loud, sharp, shrill, strident, blaring, ringing |
| Main Entry: | flashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, in poor taste |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, jazzy*, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, showy, snazzy, sparkling, tacky*, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar, catchpenny, glittery, glitzy, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, subdued, tasteful, unobtrusive, unflamboyant, unflashy, ungaudy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | garish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brassy, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, gaudy, glaring, glittering, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overwrought, raffish, showy, tawdry, vulgar, kitschy, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | discreet, modest, normal, plain, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | gaudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright and vulgar |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, brilliant, chichi*, chintzy, coarse, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, garish, gay, glaring, gross, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizzazz*, pretentious, raffish, ritzy, showy, snazzy, splashy, tasteless, tawdry, catchpenny, frou-frou, gussied up, kitschy, putting on the ritz, screaming, splendiferous, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | calm, drab, dull, modest, plain, refined, simple, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | badly behaved |
| Synonyms: | boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck*, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-bred, loud-mouthed |
| Antonyms: | mannered, mannerly, polite, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, dense, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, doltish, ill-bred, swinish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Notes: | meretricious means of or pertaining to prostitutes - alluring by vulgar or flashy display - based on pretense or insincerity; meritorious means deserving reward or praise |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obstreperous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, loud, piercing, rambunctious, riotous, rowdy, unmanageable, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild, blusterous, booming, out of hand, raising Cain, raising the roof, screaming, strepitous, tumultous |
| Main Entry: | odorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having fragrance |
| Synonyms: | aromatic, balmy, dank, fetid, flavorsome, flowery, foul, fragrant, heady, honeyed, loud, malodorous, mephitic, moldy, musty, nauseous, offensive, perfumed, pungent, putrid, redolent, rotten, savory, scented, smelly, spicy, stagnant, stale, stinking, strong, sweet, unsavory, effluvious, miasmic, odoriferant, odoriferous, olfactive, olfactory, perfumatory, perfumy, reeking, savorous, scent-laden, scentful, skunky, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, tumaceous, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | odorless |
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
| Synonyms: | boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, grandiose, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, sporty, swanky*, theatrical, vain, vulgar, exhibitionistic, flaunted, glittery, highfaluting*, peacocky, splurgy, swank, tinsel*, tony, uptown |
| Antonyms: | modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, loud, painful, penetrating, powerful, raw, severe, sharp, shooting, shrill, stentorian, thin, wintry, blaring, knifelike, numbing, racking, roaring, shattering, stabbing, stentorious, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | pushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, offensive |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, assertive, bold, brash, bumptious, forceful, loud, militant, obnoxious, obtrusive, officious, presumptuous, pushing, self-assertive, pushful |
| Antonyms: | modest, quiet, shy, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
| Synonyms: | beating, consonant, deep, earsplitting, full, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, powerful, profound, rich, round, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, thunderous, booming, clangorous, deep-toned, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, heightened, intensified, plangent, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, ringing, roaring, sonorant, throbbing, thundering |
| Antonyms: | faint, quiet |
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