loud
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lyd, Faroese ljóð, Icelandic hljóð, 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: louder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loudest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: louds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lowd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: louder
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: loudest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: lowd
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of great intensity.
pos: adj
examples: Turn that music down; it's too loud.
What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
gloss: Noisy.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: a loud party that went on all night
She is loud and stubborn.
gloss: Not subtle or reserved, brash.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: 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.
gloss: High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: A loud sound or part of a sound.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
gloss: High-quality marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Loudly.
pos: adv
examples: Who knocks so loud at door?
Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.
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.
Synonyms: ample
blaring
forceful
forte
fortissimo
noisy
powerful
sonorous
stentorian
strident
strong
voluminous
Antonyms: quiet
silent
soft
calm
low
mild
pianissimo
subtle
weak
Related words: dank
Derived words: aloud
louden
loudhailer
loudish
loudly
loudmouth
loudmouthed
loudness
loud silence
loudsome
loudspeaker
megaloud
overloud
radioloud
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hard
lang: Arabic
word: عَالٍ
roman: ʕālin
lang: Arabic
word: اَلْعَالِي
roman: al-ʕālī
lang: Armenian
word: բարձր
roman: barjr
lang: Azerbaijani
word: uca
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bərk
lang: Belarusian
word: гу́чны
roman: húčny
lang: Bhojpuri
word: जोर
roman: jōr
lang: Bulgarian
word: гръ́мък
roman: grǎ́mǎk
lang: Burmese
word: ကျယ်
roman: kyai
lang: Catalan
word: fort
lang: Catalan
word: alt
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏍᏓᏯ
roman: asdaya
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 大聲的 /大声的
roman: dàshēng de
lang: Czech
word: hlasitý
lang: Danish
word: høj
lang: Dutch
word: luid
lang: Dutch
word: luide
lang: Dutch
word: hard
lang: Dutch
word: harde
lang: Esperanto
word: laŭta
lang: Estonian
word: vali
lang: Faroese
word: høgur
lang: Faroese
word: harður
lang: Finnish
word: äänekäs
lang: Finnish
word: kova
lang: Finnish
word: luja
lang: Finnish
word: voimakas
lang: Finnish
word: voimakkuinen
lang: French
word: fort
lang: Galician
word: alto
lang: Georgian
word: ხმამაღალი
roman: xmamaɣali
lang: Georgian
word: ხმაძლიერი
roman: xmaʒlieri
lang: Georgian
word: მჟღერი
roman: mžɣeri
lang: German
word: laut
lang: Greek
word: ηχηρός
roman: ichirós
lang: Greek
word: δυνατός
roman: dynatós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μέγας
roman: mégas
lang: Hebrew
word: בְּקוֹל רָם
lang: Hindi
word: ज़ोरदार
roman: zordar
lang: Hungarian
word: hangos
lang: Hungarian
word: zajos
lang: Ido
word: lauta
lang: Ingrian
word: suur
lang: Ingrian
word: äänekäs
lang: Ingrian
word: väkövä
lang: Ingrian
word: kuuluva
lang: Irish
word: ard
lang: Irish
word: glórach
lang: Italian
word: forte
lang: Japanese
word: 音が大きい
roman: oto ga ōkii
lang: Japanese
word: 大声
roman: ōgoe
lang: Japanese
word: 騒々しい
roman: sōzōshii
lang: Japanese
word: 喧しい
roman: yakamashii
lang: Japanese
word: 煩い
roman: urusai
lang: Kazakh
word: қатты
roman: qatty
lang: Kazakh
word: сартыл
roman: sartyl
lang: Khmer
word: ខ្លាំង
roman: khlang
lang: Korean
word: 시끄럽다
roman: sikkeureopda
lang: Laboya
word: kadola
lang: Lao
word: ດັງ
roman: dang
lang: Latin
word: magnus
lang: Latvian
word: skaļš
lang: Latvian
word: skanīgs
lang: Lithuanian
word: garsus
lang: Luxembourgish
word: haart
lang: Macedonian
word: гласен
roman: glasen
lang: Malay
word: kuat
lang: Malay
word: lantang
lang: Māori
word: tīhoihoi
lang: Māori
word: tīwerawera
lang: Māori
word: rahi
lang: Māori
word: rarahi
lang: Māori
word: tiori
lang: Mongolian
word: чанга
roman: čanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: høy
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: høylytt
lang: Occitan
word: sonòr
lang: Persian
word: بلند
roman: boland
lang: Plautdietsch
word: lud
lang: Polish
word: głośny
lang: Portuguese
word: alto
lang: Romanian
word: tare
lang: Russian
word: гро́мкий
roman: grómkij
lang: Samoan
word: leotele
lang: Scots
word: lood
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: faramach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fuaimneach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: glȁsan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȕčan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гласан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бучан
lang: Slovak
word: hlasný
lang: Slovene
word: glasen
lang: Spanish
word: fuerte
lang: Spanish
word: sonoro
lang: Spanish
word: duro
lang: Spanish
word: alto
lang: Spanish
word: fuerte sónicamente
lang: Spanish
word: alto acústicamente
lang: Swahili
word: -kubwa
lang: Swedish
word: hög
lang: Tetum
word: maka'as
lang: Thai
word: ดัง
roman: dang
lang: Tibetan
word: སྐད་ཆེན་པོ
roman: skad chen po
lang: Tongan
word: leʻo lahi
lang: Turkish
word: yüksek
lang: Ukrainian
word: голосни́й
roman: holosnýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: гучни́й
roman: hučnýj
lang: Urdu
word: اُونچی
roman: aūncī
lang: Urdu
word: تیز
roman: tez
lang: Urdu
word: زیادہ
roman: zyāda
lang: Urdu
word: زوردار
roman: zordar
lang: Uzbek
word: qichqiroq
lang: Vietnamese
word: to
lang: Volapük
word: laodik
lang: Welsh
word: uchel