| Main Entry: | stentorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
Synonyms: |
blaring, loud, orotund, resounding, sonorous |
| 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: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
Synonyms: |
acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, blaring, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, knifelike, loud, numbing, painful, penetrating, powerful, racking, raw, roaring, severe, sharp, shattering, shooting, shrill, stabbing, stentorian, stentorious, thin, treble, wintry |
Antonyms: |
low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
Synonyms: |
beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
Antonyms: |
faint, quiet |
| Main Entry: | strident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh, shrill |
Synonyms: |
blatant, boisterous, clamorous, clashing, discordant, grating, hoarse, jangling, jarring, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rasping, raucous, screeching, squawky, squeaky, stentorian, stertorous, stridulant, stridulous, unmusical, vociferant, vociferous |
Antonyms: |
low, mild, moderate, soft |
| Main Entry: | vocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extroverted about opinion |
Synonyms: |
articulate, blunt, clamorous, eloquent, expressive, facile, fluent, forthright, frank, free, free-spoken, glib, noisy, outspoken, plainspoken, round, smooth-spoken, stentorian, strident, venting, vociferous |
Antonyms: |
introverted, modest, quiet, shy |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
Antonyms: |
natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | orotund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ostentatious |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, clear, loud, pompous, resonant, resounding, rich, showy, sonorous, stentorian |
| Main Entry: | blaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
Synonyms: |
blasting, booming, deafening, ear-piercing, earsplitting, noisy, piercing, roaring, stentorian, thunderous |
| Main Entry: | plangent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
Synonyms: |
beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |