loud

Definition of loud

13 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

Of great intensity.

“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.”

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adj

Of great intensity.

“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.”
(usually)Noisy.

“a loud party that went on all night”
“She is loud and stubborn.”
(usually)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.”
(usually)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.”
(slang)High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

noun

(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A loud sound or part of a sound.

“The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]”
(slang, uncountable)High-quality marijuana.

adv

Loudly.

“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.”

name

(countable)A surname.
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)A surname.
(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)A surname.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)A placename
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)A placename

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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…

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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”).

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