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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | blaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | blasting, booming, deafening, ear-piercing, earsplitting, noisy, piercing, roaring, stentorian, thunderous |
| 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
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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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Adjectives: |
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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