Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh sounding |
| Synonyms: | clinking, discordant, disharmonic, dissonant, grating, ill-sounding, immusical, inharmonious, jangly, jarring, noisy, raucous, sour, strident, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | dissonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unharmonious |
| Synonyms: | cacophonic, cacophonous, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, grating, harsh, inharmonic, inharmonious, jangling, jarring, out of tune, raucous, strident, tuneless, unmelodious, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | concordant, harmonious |
| Main Entry: | harsh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, crude (to the senses) |
| Synonyms: | acrid, asperous, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raucous, rigid, rugged, rusty, screeching, severe, sharp, sour, strident, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | easy, gentle, mild, peaceful, pleasing, smooth, soft |
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blaring, noisy |
| Synonyms: | big, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, roaring, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
| Antonyms: | inaudible, low, quiet, soft, subdued |
| Main Entry: | noisy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud and unharmonious in sound |
| Synonyms: | blatant, blusterous, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, chattering, clamorous, clangorous, clattery, deafening, disorderly, ear-popping, ear-splitting, jumping, loudmouth, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, raising Cain, raising the roof, rambunctious, raspy, riotous, rowdy, screaming, strepitous, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vociferous |
| Notes: | noisome means noxious, harmful, unwholesome or offensive to the smell or other senses, while noisy means full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds |
| Antonyms: | noiseless, quiet, silent, still |
| 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: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy; not quiet |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustering, blustery, boisterous, buffeting, cacophonous, choppy, coarse, discordant, dry, furious, grating, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, inclement, inharmonious, jarring, raging, rasping, raucous, rugged, squally, stridulent, tempestuous, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unmusical, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate, temperate |
| 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: | roaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | big*, blaring, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, earsplitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy*, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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