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earsplitting
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
| Antonyms: | faint, quiet |
| 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: | plangent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, emphatic, enhanced, forceful, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ringing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scratchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh |
| Synonyms: | acrid, asperous, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, dry, earsplitting, flat*, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raspy, raucous, rigid, rough, rugged, rusty, screeching, severe, sharp, sour*, squawky, strident, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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