loud

UK /laʊd/ US /laʊd/
adj 5name 5noun 2adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Of great intensity.

Turn that music down; it's too loud.

What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.

2

Noisy.

a loud party that went on all night

She is loud and stubborn.

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.

4

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.

5

High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

noun

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.

adv

1

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.

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