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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aloud, blaring, blatant, blinding, booming, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, chintzy, clamant, clamorous, coarse, colorful, crass, crude, crying, deafening, demanding, draining, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earsplitting, earthshaking, earthy, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forte, fortemente, fortissimo, full, fulminating, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, grasping, gross, harsh, hoarse, importunate, in full cry, insistent, instant, intense, jazzy, loud-sounding, loudish, loudly, lurid, lustily, meretricious, noisily, noisy, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, ostentatious, overbright, pealing, penetrating, persistent, pertinacious, piercing, plangent, pressing, pungent, raucous, raw, reeking, resonant, resounding, resoundingly, ribald, ringing, ringingly, roaring, rough, rude, screaming, sensational, shameless, showy, shrieking, snazzy, sonorous, spectacular, splashy, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stertorous, strident, tasteless, tawdry, taxing, thundering, thunderous, tinsel, tonitruant, tonitruous, uproariously, urgent, vulgar, window-rattling
Dictionary Results for loud:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
loud
    adv 1: with relatively high volume; "the band played 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" [syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant:
           quietly, softly]
    adj 1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or
           intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder";
           "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: soft]
    2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
       colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
       meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
       brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
       gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
       tawdry, trashy]
    3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the
       forte passages in the composition" [syn: forte, loud]
       [ant: piano, soft]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Loud \Loud\, adv. [AS. hl[=u]de.]
   With loudness; loudly.
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         To speak loud in public assemblies.      --Addison.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Loud \Loud\ (loud), a. [Compar. Louder (loud"[~e]r); superl.
   Loudest.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hl[=u]d; akin to OS. hl[=u]d,
   D. luid, OHG. l[=u]t, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus,
   inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr.
   klyto`s heard, loud, famous, kly`ein to hear, Skr. [,c]ru.
   [root]41. Cf. Client, Listen, Slave a serf.]
   1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy;
      striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud
      thunder.
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            They were instant with loud voices, requiring that
            he might be crucified.                --Luke xxiii.
                                                  23.
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   2. Clamorous; boisterous.
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            She is loud and stubborn.             --Prov. vii.
                                                  11.
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   3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united
      effort. [Colloq.]
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   4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a
      loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]

   Syn: Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous;
        turbulent; blustering; vehement.
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