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adjective as in blaring, noisy

Strongest matches

big, boisterous, deafening, emphatic, heavy, intense, lusty, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, ringing, roaring, rowdy, strident, strong, thundering, vehement, vociferous

Weak matches

blatant, blustering, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, high-sounding, loud-voiced, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, resonant, sonorous, stentorian, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, wakes the dead

adjective as in offensive, gaudy

Weak matches

brazen, chintzy, coarse, crass, crude, flamboyant, garish, glaring, gross, lurid, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, showy, tasteless, tawdry

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Example Sentences

"I don't have a problem saying that out loud."

Donald Trump’s allies have been told to stop saying the quiet part out loud.

“It was his window to express how he felt, like he could say things in songs that he wouldn’t be okay saying out loud,” she recalled.

This means the headphones can't amplify multiple speakers at once, lose functionality if the wearer turns their head away from the target speaker, and aren't as effective at reducing loud sounds from the speaker's direction.

“They were just a good team. Mason was the quiet one, Max was the loud one,” Leanne said.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.