out loud

1. 1.

   using the voice; not silently

   “please read the passage aloud”

   “he laughed out loud”

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Questions about out loud

What does out loud mean?

out loud means "using the voice; not silently".

What is another word for out loud?

Close synonyms include aloud. 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.

Is out loud a common word?

out loud is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.