[
US
/ˈɫaʊd/
]
[ UK /lˈaʊd/ ]
[ UK /lˈaʊd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(used chiefly as a direction or description in music) loud; with force
the forte passages in the composition -
tastelessly showy
loud sport shirts
tawdry ornaments
a flashy ring
a flash car
a meretricious yet stylish book
garish colors
a gaudy costume -
characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
loud trombones
loud thunder
her voice was too loud
a group of loud children
ADVERB
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with relatively high volume
cried aloud for help
he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him
the band played loudly
she spoke loudly and angrily
How To Use loud In A Sentence
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil (nimbostratus) with a little fractus in the foreground.
- She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
- The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
- We sat in aw as we listened to Hillary's speech and wondered aloud what she's up too. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, June 2, 2008
- The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
- Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
- Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside. 8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5