Loud

//laʊd//

Definitions

adjlouder · loudest

1
Of great intensity.
Turn that music down; it's too loud.
2
Noisy.
a loud party that went on all night
3
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.
Similar
garish gaudy

nounlouds

1
A loud sound or part of a sound.
The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
2
High-quality marijuana.

advlouder · loudest

1
Loudly.
Who knocks so loud at door?

nameLouds

1
A surname.
2
A placename

Word Origin

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-Europea...

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