loud

1. 1.

   with relatively high volume

   “the band played loudly”

   “she spoke loudly and angrily”

   “he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him”

   “cried aloud for help”

   Synonymsloudlyaloud

Other forms of loud

comparative

louder·

superlative

loudest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about loud

What does loud mean?

loud means "characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loud?

loud has 1 syllable: loud. In IPA it is /ˈlaʊd/.

What is another word for loud?

Close synonyms include brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of loud?

The recorded antonyms are soft.

Is loud a common word?

loud is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with loud?

1 word rhymes with loud. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.