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as in deafening
marked by a high volume of sound
loud music that could be heard all over the neighborhood
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2
as in noisy
excessively showy
his loud Hawaiian shirt made his face look especially pale
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Recent Examples of loud
Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Just begs to be sung loud and lustily.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
In a city of 20 million people, where most sidewalks are dilapidated, getting stuck in slow-moving traffic can sound as loud as a rock concert.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
And then stick with that truth, no matter how loud the complaining.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Just begs to be sung loud and lustily.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
The YouTube cameras caught Kelce giving some tough love to Taylor, which involved a small head-butt and loud words.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
In a city of 20 million people, where most sidewalks are dilapidated, getting stuck in slow-moving traffic can sound as loud as a rock concert.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loud
Adjective
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Visitors will come face-to-face with Leatherface and the deranged Sawyer family amid the deafening roar of chainsaws in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre haunted house.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Aug. 2025
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Yet given the league and many of its most prominent players' presence in social justice efforts, their silence around the violence being fueled by Rwanda and the UAE is all the more deafening.—
Nuri Kino,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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During recent surveys for these noisy lizards in Namibia, researchers found five species new to science, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Aventho 200’s microphone uses Qualcomm’s cVc technology to ensure high-quality audio on phone calls and video meetings, even in noisy environments such as crowded trains or busy airports.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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As reporters walked by where Broadbelt’s body was found, a large black dog in a front yard barked loudly and ran along the fence.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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With the verbal exchanges seemingly exhausted, the two opponents will now let their actions speak loudly in the ring in Paris.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Two years later, the print received another ringing endorsement.—
Natalie Hammond,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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While most graduations take place in arenas in May, the ringing applause heard throughout the center yesterday marked the end of the high school educational journeys for over 50 students, many of whom have been involved with gun violence and used school to change their life direction.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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O’Brien’s dual roles as both flamboyantly gay charm bomb Rocky — who is flattened in a car accident early in the film — and the grieving and straight Roman comprise a career-topping performance.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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The flamboyantly lascivious Frank-N-Furter is about to unveil his new Creature, the titular Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The 89-year-old child psychologist transformed a corner of the conservative movement into a roaring political force that shaped the national conversation and became the de facto base of the modern Republican Party that embraced performative piety as a precondition for viability.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
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This familiarity with the Wyoming wilderness perhaps explains why the game feels so authentic: Its roaring orange sunsets, powder-blue skies, lush green pines, and trickling turquoise waters.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
9 July 2025
Adverb
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The ingredients of an Erewhon smoothie (4) swirl together without any mixing, colors clashing ostentatiously.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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Yet whereas Taxi Driver ends in a sequence of redemptive carnage, First Reformed swerves in its last moments into a scene so ostentatiously at odds with everything coming before that accepting it at face value would seem to mean denying the film up to that point had anything serious to say.—
Roy Scranton
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The thunderous trio of Vinnie Pasquantino, Maikel Garcia and Salvador Perez were due up in succession.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
30 Aug. 2025
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Plumes of smoke and thunderous blasts could be seen and heard across the border in southern Israel on Friday morning.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Loud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loud. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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