loud

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with relatively high volume

   the band played loudly

2. 2
   adj

   characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity

   a group of loud children

3. 3
   adj

   Of great intensity.

   Turn that music down; it's too loud.

4. 4
   adj

   Noisy.

   a loud party that went on all night

5. 5
   adj

   Not subtle or reserved, brash.

   Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.

6. 6
   adj

   Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.

   a loud style of dress; loud colors

7. 7
   noun

   A loud sound or part of a sound.

   The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]

8. 8
   adv

   Loudly.

   Who knocks so loud at door?

Etymology

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…