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loudness

loud
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [loud]
    • /laʊd/
    • /ˈlaʊdnəs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [loud]
    • /laʊd/

Definitions of loudness word

  • adjective loudness (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers. 1
  • adjective loudness making, emitting, or uttering strongly audible sounds: a quartet of loud trombones. 1
  • adjective loudness clamorous, vociferous, or blatant; noisy: a loud party; a loud demonstration. 1
  • adjective loudness emphatic or insistent: to be loud in one's praises; a loud denial. 1
  • adjective loudness garish, conspicuous, or ostentatious, as colors, dress, or the wearer of garish dress: loud ties; a loud dresser. 1
  • adjective loudness obtrusively vulgar, as manners or persons. 1
See all 13 definitions of loudness

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Origin of loudness

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English hlūd; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon hlūd (Dutch luid), Old High German hlūt (German laut); akin to Greek klytós famous

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Parts of speech for Loudness

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Loudness

loudness popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for loudness

noun loudness

  • noise — sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind: deafening noises.
  • tone — (Theobald) Wolfe, 1763–98, Irish nationalist and martyr for independence.
  • vibration — the act of vibrating.
  • accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
  • note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
All 29 Synonyms of loudness

Antonyms for loudness

noun loudness

  • silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
  • cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
  • quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
All 3 Antonyms of loudness

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Related words

  • crescendo

    A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.

  • swell

    to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.

  • phon

    a unit for measuring the apparent loudness of a sound, equal in number for a given sound to the intensity in decibels of a sound having a frequency of 1000 cycles per second when, in the judgment of a group of listeners, the two sounds are of equal loudness.

  • sone

    a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.

  • decrescendo

    with a gradual decrease in loudness; diminuendo: often used as a musical direction: symbol 57381

  • diminuendo

    a gradual reduction of force or loudness.
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