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| Main Entry: | noisy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud and unharmonious in sound |
| Synonyms: | blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, clamorous, deafening, disorderly, jumping, obstreperous, piercing, rambunctious, raspy, riotous, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferous, blusterous, booming, chattering, clangorous, clattery, ear-popping, ear-splitting, loudmouth, rackety, raising Cain, raising the roof, screaming, strepitous, turned up |
| Notes: | noisome means noxious, harmful, unwholesome or offensive to the smell or other senses, while noisy means full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds |
| Antonyms: | noiseless, quiet, silent, still |
| Main Entry: | brassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, loud to the senses |
| Synonyms: | arrant, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, blaring, overbold, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent |
| Main Entry: | cacophonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh sounding |
| Synonyms: | discordant, dissonant, grating, inharmonious, jarring, noisy, raucous, sour, strident, clinking, disharmonic, ill-sounding, immusical, jangly, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | deafening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
| Synonyms: | noisy, rowdy, thunderous, vociferous, at full volume, blaring, booming, ear-piercing, ear-popping, ear-splitting, ringing, roaring, screaming, turned up |
| Main Entry: | earsplitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | deafening, noisy, penetrating, piercing, shrill, strident, thunderous, blaring, ringing |
| Main Entry: | hilarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very funny |
| Synonyms: | amusing, comical, convivial, entertaining, exhilarated, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughable, lively, merry, mirthful, noisy, priceless, riot, rollicking, scream, uproarious, witty, gut-busting, side-splitting |
| Antonyms: | grave, serious, somber, tragic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | rambunctious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud, energetic |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, noisy, raucous, rough, rowdy, rude, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unruly, termagant |
| Antonyms: | introverted, meek, quiet, shy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | rootin'-tootin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rowdy |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disorderly, loud, loudmouthed, mischievous, noisy, rambunctious, raucous, unruly, uproarious, vigorous, wild |
| Main Entry: | shrill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high-pitched, harsh in sound |
| Synonyms: | acute, blatant, cacophonous, deafening, discordant, earsplitting, high, metallic, noisy, penetrating, piercing, raucous, sharp, strident, thin, argute, blaring, clanging, clangorous, ear-piercing, piping, screeching, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft |
| Main Entry: | strident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh, shrill |
| Synonyms: | blatant, boisterous, clamorous, clashing, discordant, grating, hoarse, jarring, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rasping, raucous, squeaky, stentorian, vociferous, jangling, screeching, squawky, stertorous, stridulant, stridulous, unmusical, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | low, mild, moderate, soft |
| Main Entry: | tumultous/tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; in an uproar |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbunctious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | unbridled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrestrained |
| Synonyms: | berserk, chaotic, crazed, crazy, enthusiastic, hysterical, madcap, noisy, rabid, riotous, turbulent, unchecked, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, violent, wild, unconstrained, uncurbed |
| Main Entry: | vociferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud, insistent |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamant, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, ranting, shouting, shrill, strident, uproarious, vehement, distracting, loud-mouthed, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silent |
| Main Entry: | tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbustious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, stentorian, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid, elocutionary, gesticulative, gesturing, intoning, senatorial, stagy, stylistic |
| Antonyms: | natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | harsh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, crude (to the senses) |
| Synonyms: | acrid, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jarring, noisy, off-key*, rasping, raucous, rigid, rugged, rusty, severe, sharp, sour, strident, uneven, unrelenting, asperous, caterwauling, creaking, croaking, jangling, not smooth, out-of-key, out-of-tune, screeching, stridulous, tuneless, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | easy, gentle, mild, peaceful, pleasing, smooth, soft |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turbulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled, raging (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | agitated, bitter, blustery, boiling, bumpy, choppy, coarse, confused, destructive, disordered, disturbed, fierce, furious, inclement, noisy, restless, riotous, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, tremulous, unstable, violent, wild, blustering, foaming, howling, moiling, roaring, ruffled, stirred up, stormful, storming, swirling, tumultous/ tumultuous |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate, settled |
| Main Entry: | uproarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | boisterous |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, loud, noisy, obstreperous, wild, rackety |
| Main Entry: | blatant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deafening |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamorous, crying, harsh, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, obtrusive, piercing, scurrilous, strident, vociferous, vulgar, ear-splitting, screaming, vociferant |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silent |
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