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ear-splitting
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deafening |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, clamorous, crying, ear-splitting, harsh, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, obtrusive, piercing, screaming, scurrilous, strident, vociferant, vociferous, vulgar |
| Notes: | flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silent |
| 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: | 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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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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big sounding, callithumpian, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, deep, ear-deafening, ear-rending, ear-splitting, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake the seven sleepers, fremescent, full, high-sounding, hypnopompic, loud, megalophonic, multisonous, noisy, obstreperous, perstreperous, piercing, polyphloisboian, powerful, rackety, randan, raucous, routous, shrill, sonorous, stentophonic, stentorian, stertorous, strepent, thundering, tonant, tonitruous, trumpet-tongued, uproarious
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