louder

Adjective

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. Of great intensity.
   • Turn that music down; it's too loud.
2. (usually, thing, event) Noisy.
   • a loud party that went on all night
3. (usually, event) 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.1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2020
4. (usually, decorations) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
   • a loud style of dress; loud colors
5. (slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
6. Of great intensity.
   • Ohls showed the motorcycle officer his badge and we went out on the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 45

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