loudness

Roget category 404

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#404. Loudness

noun

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) 406 — resonance etc. 408.
vociferation, hullabaloo, etc. 411 — lungs — Stentor.
artillery, cannon — thunder.

verb

be loud etc. adj. — peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar — resound etc. 408.
speak up, shout etc. (vociferate) 411 — bellow etc. (cry as an animal) 412.
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 — faire le diable a quatre [Fr.] — make one's windows shake, rattle the windows — awaken the echoes, startle the echoes — wake the dead.

adjective

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. 410 clamorous etc. (vociferous) 411 stentorian, stentorophonic^†.

adverb

loudly etc. adj.. aloud — at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry.

phrase

the air rings with — the deep dread-bolted thunder" [Lear].

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