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Antonyms for loud
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Wiktionary1.0 / 4 votes

  1. loudadjective

    Synonyms:
    garish, gaudy

  2. loudadjective

    Antonyms:
    quiet, soft

  3. loudadjective

    Antonyms:
    quiet

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.3 / 3 votes

  1. loud

    Antonyms:
    soft, gentle, subdued, whispering, rustling, murmuring, babbling, pattering, tinkling, dulcet, inaudible, quiet

    Synonyms:
    sounding, sonorous, resonant, noisy, audible, vociferous, clamorous, obstreperous

Princeton's WordNet3.4 / 5 votes

  1. loudadjective

    characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity

    "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

    Antonyms:
    subdued, soughing, susurrant, hushed, muffled, muted, tasteful, small, softened, euphonious, murmurous, little, murmuring, rustling, soft-spoken, quiet, low, dull, whispering, gentle, low-toned, soft-footed, susurrous, soft

    Synonyms:
    flashy, tawdry, cheap, meretricious, tacky, flash, gimcrack, tatty, garish, brassy, trashy, gaudy, forte

  2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective

    tastelessly showy

    "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

    Antonyms:
    subdued, dull, susurrous, euphonious, muffled, soft-footed, murmuring, whispering, muted, little, susurrant, hushed, tasteful, murmurous, quiet, low-toned, soft-spoken, soft, rustling, small, gentle, low, soughing, softened

    Synonyms:
    forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, punk, shabby, flashy, meretricious, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, tawdry, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishy

  3. forte, loudadverb

    used chiefly as a direction or description in music

    "the forte passages in the composition"

    Antonyms:
    tasteful, dull, euphonious, gentle, soughing, softened, soft, murmurous, small, susurrous, murmuring, whispering, susurrant, soft-spoken, muted, quiet, subdued, hushed, little, low-toned, rustling, muffled, soft-footed, low

    Synonyms:
    flashy, tawdry, cheap, garish, tacky, flash, gimcrack, tatty, meretricious, brassy, trashy, gaudy, forte

  4. loudly, loud, aloudadverb

    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"

    Antonyms:
    soughing, susurrant, euphonious, susurrous, whispering, low-toned, murmuring, small, soft-footed, muffled, hushed, little, rustling, tasteful, subdued, soft, gentle, quiet, low, murmurous, dull, muted, soft-spoken, softened

    Synonyms:
    clamorously, loudly, forte, obstreperously, aloud, out loud

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 2 votes

  1. loudadjective

    Synonyms:
    deafening, stentorian, resonant, clarion, clamorous, vociferous, boisterous, gaudy, flashy, ostentatious, showy, emphatic, urgent, appealing

How to use loud in a sentence?

  1. Hermann Hesse:

    Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  2. Mike Hoffman:

    It was great, hopefully down the road we can get even more in here. I thought it was awesome and even for 1,400 it was pretty loud out there.

  3. Elizabeth Adamson:

    Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

  4. Norma Capuyan:

    Loud bursts of gunfire erupted, there was heavy volume of fire. We ran to a church compound and the police surrounded us.

  5. Ron Paul:

    The constitutional conservatives of our party have spoken in a loud and clear voice today, I plan on doing my part and I hope you will join me as I continue to make the GOP a bigger, better and bolder party.

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#66433rustling
#77342murmuring
#93002tinkling
#182872dulcet
#223652pattering
#241876euphonious

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