Meaning of loud | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of great intensity.
2. strong
3. Noisy.
   usually
4. hard
5. Not subtle or reserved, brash.
   usually
6. fort, stronghold
7. Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
   usually
8. strong point, forte, strength
9. High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
   slang

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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.”

“a loud party that went on all night”

“She is loud and stubborn.”

“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.”

“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.”

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