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blaring
| Main Entry: |
blaring
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | blasting, booming, deafening, ear-piercing, earsplitting, noisy, piercing, roaring, stentorian, thunderous |
| Main Entry: | brassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, loud to the senses |
| Synonyms: | arrant, barefaced, blaring, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, overbold, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent |
| Main Entry: | clarion |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, stirring sound |
| Synonyms: | blaring, definite, inspiring, loud, ringing, sharp, shrill, strident |
| Main Entry: | deafening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
| Synonyms: | at full volume, blaring, booming, ear-piercing, ear-popping, ear-splitting, noisy, ringing, roaring, rowdy, screaming, thunderous, turned up, vociferous |
| Main Entry: | earsplitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | blaring, deafening, noisy, penetrating, piercing, ringing, shrill, strident, thunderous |
| Main Entry: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, blaring, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, knifelike, loud, numbing, painful, penetrating, powerful, racking, raw, roaring, severe, sharp, shattering, shooting, shrill, stabbing, stentorian, stentorious, thin, treble, wintry |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | raucous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy, rough |
| Synonyms: | absonant, acute, atonal, blaring, blatant, braying, brusque, cacophonous, discordant, dissonant, dry, ear-piercing, grating, grinding, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, inharmonious, jarring, loud, piercing, rasping, sharp, squawking, stertorous, strident, thick, unharmonious, unmusical |
| Notes: | raucous means unpleasantly loud and harsh or disturbing the public peace, while a ruckus is a disturbance or a commotion |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, soft, subdued |
| Main Entry: | shrill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high-pitched, harsh in sound |
| Synonyms: | acute, argute, blaring, blatant, cacophonous, clanging, clangorous, deafening, discordant, ear-piercing, earsplitting, high, metallic, noisy, penetrating, piercing, piping, raucous, screeching, sharp, strident, thin, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft |
| Main Entry: | stentorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
| Synonyms: | blaring, loud, orotund, resounding, sonorous |
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