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Loud   /laʊd/   Listen
Loud

adjective
(compar. louder; superl. loudest)
1.
Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity.  "Loud thunder" , "Her voice was too loud" , "Loud trombones"
2.
Tastelessly showy.  Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.  "A flashy ring" , "Garish colors" , "A gaudy costume" , "Loud sport shirts" , "A meretricious yet stylish book" , "Tawdry ornaments"
3.
Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.  Synonym: forte.
adverb
1.
With relatively high volume.  Synonyms: aloud, loudly.  "She spoke loudly and angrily" , "He spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him" , "Cried aloud for help"



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"Loud" Quotes from Famous Books



... saying—something that people would be glad to hear. This is the important thing. Back of the art of speaking must be the power to think. Without thoughts words are empty purses. Most people imagine that almost any words uttered in a loud voice and accompanied by appropriate gestures, constitute an oration. I would advise the young man to study his subject, to find what others had thought, to look at it from all sides. Then I would tell him to write out his thoughts or to arrange them in his mind, ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll
... the midst of the crowd where Vogotzine's loud laugh alternated with the little cries of the Baroness, felt a complex sentiment: he wished his friends to enjoy themselves and yet he longed to be alone with Marsa, and to take her away. They were to go first to his hotel in Paris; ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... aloud. The white road spun beneath him. His hands, pressed against his body by the weight of the leather straps, were hot and wet; he could feel the loud beating of his heart. ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... He came near He heard within the city the tread of the feet of joy, and the laughter of the mouth of gladness and the loud noise of many lutes. And He knocked at the gate and certain of the gate-keepers opened ...
— Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde - with a Preface by Robert Ross • Oscar Wilde
... after our departure, instead of feeding, as they daily do, on beans and bacon, living in a filthy hotel and having had nothing to wash in until they bought themselves a bucket. Last night, just after we had gone to bed, a loud knock was made at our door, and a man asked "if we intended getting up to-night," at which we were furious; but he persisted in the most determined way in questioning us as to whether "it wasn't Mrs. H——'s room," and we had time to get more ...
— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall


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