loud
adjEtymology
From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen. Cognates Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).
Definitions
Of great intensity.
- Turn that music down; it's too loud.
- What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.
Noisy.
- a loud party that went on all night
- She is loud and stubborn.
Not subtle or reserved, brash.
- Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.
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Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns
Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
- a loud style of dress; loud colors
- In comparison with the loud Portrait of E.C. Ricart (ill. p. 13) two years earlier, Miró has captured a soft, hushed atmosphere here.
High-quality
High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
A loud sound or part of a sound.
- The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
High-quality marijuana.
Loudly.
- Who knocks so loud at door?
- Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do.
A surname.
A placename
The neighborhood
- synonymample
- synonymblaring
- synonymforceful
- synonymforte
- synonymfortissimo
- synonymnoisy
- synonympowerful
- synonymsonorous
- synonymstentorian
- synonymstrident
- synonymstrong
- synonymvoluminous
- antonymquietantonym(s) of “sound”
- antonymsilentantonym(s) of “sound”
- antonymsoftantonym(s) of “sound”
- antonymcalm
- antonymlow
- antonymmild
- antonympianissimo
- antonymsubtle
- antonymweak
- neighborvolume
- neighborblistering
- neighborbooming
- neighborbrash
- neighborcacophonous
- neighborclamorous
- neighborcrashing
- neighbordeafening
- neighborexplosive
- neighborharsh
- neighborroaring
- neighbordank
Derived
aloud, louden, loudhailer, loudish, loudly, loudmouth, loudmouthed, loudness, loudsome, loudspeaker, megaloud, overloud, radioloud
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at loud. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at loud. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at loud
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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