LOUDLY Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

loudly

adverb

Definition of loudly

as in loud

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Recent Examples of loudly The professional explorers spent a year living inside the Boundary Waters, using their platform to speak loudly for its protection. — Erin Hassanzadeh, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 Odds of getting shares were worse than one in five thousand, which explains pretty loudly why the stock popped so much on launch. — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 One city in particular lives loudly, with Austin pinned as the ‘Live Music Capital of the World,’ with over 100 venues filling the city with the sound of music, festivals and events day and night. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026 Shortly after the book was published, criticism came loudly, most focusing on the book’s historical inaccuracies and genealogical fabrications. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026 Ivey said Jacox and Hicks had been arguing loudly after drinking when one of the victims asked them to quiet down. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The motion lights snap on, and then the security system loudly warns them that they are being recorded and tells them to leave. — Abigail Velez, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 Báez, 23, has developed into a loudly talented, 6-foot-3, 220-pound slugger. — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026 For the next few seconds, the only sound came from Julia eating way too loudly. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for loudly

Adverb

Brewer said more than 10 pages of questions from residents will be read out loud at the City Council hearing, and co-op organizations will speak out.

— Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
There’s another description of an older car that’s real loud.

— Dateline NBC, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of loud

Adverb

Students were pouring noisily out of classrooms like concertgoers attempting to leave a venue.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Despite that underlying tension, kids play on the street outside while the large family has a dynamic like any other — noisily squabbling, joking, or in the case of the matriarchal grandmother, Mariam (Hiam Abbass), preparing a meal in a kitchen plagued by constant utility outages.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026

Definition of noisily

Adverb

Bryan Fuller’s expressionistic procedural is ostentatiously gruesome, yes, but the increasingly disturbing interplay between Will and Hannibal — cat and mouse, will-they/won’t they — is a full course meal on its own.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
In her closet were seven Ungaros, three Rykiels, a Kamali bathing suit and a Kamali sleeping-bag coat, five Kenzo dresses, two pieces from the Ballets Russes collection of Saint Laurent—all of which were trades or payments in kind, none of them mothballed, but instead worn ostentatiously and often.

— Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of ostentatiously

Adverb

These moves have once again foregrounded Paul's unproven claims that the SARS-Cov-2 virus came from a lab leak and that Fauci covered it up — a charge the scientist has vociferously denied.

— Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 July 2026
Certain members of the cast push the humor a little too vociferously.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Definition of vociferously

Adverb

Sister Daphne belongs to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an LGBTQ+ group made up mostly of people who dress flamboyantly as nuns.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
The experience of the drink is composed, elegant even, a sophisticated push and pull subtlety and counterbalance, but the list of ingredients reads, to me, to be almost flamboyantly random.

— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2026

Definition of flamboyantly

Adverb

Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 June 2026
These movies now add up to a canon greater than the sum of their boisterously funny, deliriously inventive parts.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 June 2026

Definition of boisterously

Adverb

Tom Cruise sat elbow to elbow with David Beckham; UCLA and Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul Jabbar got a rousing ovation and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was lustily booed.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Helen wept quietly, believing her world had come to an end, while Alice, always comfortable with attention, cried more lustily.

— Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of lustily

Adverb

South Florida has a large population of Venezuelan immigrants—a stridently anti-chavista voting bloc that many politicians see as crucial to winning elections.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Ukraine’s accession process was long stymied by Hungary, under stridently nationalist former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was considered Russia’s strongest ally in Europe and possible threat to the EU project.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026

Definition of stridently

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