Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Loudness

Nouns
  • loudness, power
  • loud noise, din
  • blare
  • clang, clangor
  • clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom
  • bang (explosion) [Sudden and violent sounds.] Snap
  • resonance etc. Resonance. vociferation, hullabaloo, c. Cry
  • lungs
  • Stentor. artillery, cannon
  • thunder.
Verbs
  • be loud etc. adj.
  • peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar
  • resound etc. Resonance. speak up, shout etc. (vociferate) Cry
  • bellow etc. (cry as an animal) [Animal sounds.] Ululation. rend the air, rend the skies
  • fill the air
  • din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear
  • pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head
  • deafen, stun
  • make one's windows shake, rattle the windows
  • awaken the echoes, startle the echoes
  • wake the dead.
Adjectives
  • loud, sonorous
  • high-sounding, big-sounding
  • deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous
  • thundering, deafening etc. v.
  • trumpet-tongued
  • ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening
  • piercing
  • obstreperous, rackety, uproarious
  • enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers. shrill etc. [Harsh sounds.] Stridor clamorous etc. (vociferous) Cry stentorian, stentorophonic.
Adverbs
  • loudly etc. adj.. aloud
  • at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry.
Phrases
  • the air rings with
  • the deep dread-bolted thunder" [Lear].