Definition of loud

"loud" in the adjective sense

1. loud

characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity

"a group of loud children"

"loud thunder"

"her voice was too loud"

"loud trombones"

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

tastelessly showy

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

3. forte, loud

used chiefly as a direction or description in music) loud with force

"the forte passages in the composition"

"loud" in the adverb sense

1. loudly, loud, aloud

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"

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Quotations for loud

The loud type of vulgarity. [ Emerson ]

Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]

While rocking winds are piping loud. [ Milton ]

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow.
Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. [ Auerbach ]

Loud clamour is always more or less insane. [ Carlyle ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields,
The living mass as if he were its soul! [ William Cullen Bryant ]

He must cry loud who would frighten the devil. [ Danish Proverb ]

Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are silent. [ Proverb ]

Truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. [ Proverb ]

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters. [ Haliburton ]

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. [ Pope ]

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element. [ Haliburton ]

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. [ Chesterfield ]

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. [ Carlyle ]

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than a way of braying? [ Sir Roger L'Estrange ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]

That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]

Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. [ Addison ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

loud in Scrabble®

The word loud is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters loud:

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loud in Words With Friends™

The word loud is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters loud:

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Words within the letters of loud

2 letter words in loud (1 word)

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4 letter words in loud (1 word)

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Word Growth involving loud

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Longer words containing loud

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