loud

Meaning

1. Of great intensity.
2. Noisy.
3. Not subtle or reserved, brash.
4. Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

noisy

boisterous

loud-voiced

make noise

speaker system

make a racket

sing loudly

speaker unit

speak loudly

squawk box

talk loudly

full-sounding

gawdy

with a thundering noise

ball-breaker

ball-buster

loud-sounding

intercom speaker

loudspeaker system

be too noisy

laugh loudly

frippish

insistent

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/laʊd/

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen. Cognates Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).