different between loud vs brassy

English

Alternative forms

• lowd (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: loud, IPA^(key): /la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hl?d (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?daz, *hl?þaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lew- (“to hear”). 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 ?????? (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian ??? (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (slava, “glory”), ????? (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit ???? (?ráva, “glory”). More at listen.

Adjective

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.

2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs vii. 11

     She is loud and stubborn.

3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality

Synonyms

• (of clothing, etc): garish, gaudy

Antonyms

• (sound): quiet, soft
• (person): quiet

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
   • 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)

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

2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.

See also

• dank

Etymology 2

From Middle English loude, from Old English hl?de (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?da, *hl?dô (“loudly”).

Adverb

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. Loudly.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     Who knocks so loud at door?

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 14, pp. 71-72,^[2]

     Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

Anagrams

• Ludo, ludo, ludo-, ould

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hl?d.

Adjective

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loud”)

Etymology 2

From Old English hl?de.

Adverb

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)

English

Etymology 1

brass +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African) IPA^(key): /?b???.si/, /?b?æs.i/
• (US, Canada) enPR: br?s??, IPA^(key): /?b?æs.i/
• Rhymes: -??si, -æsi

Adjective

brassy (comparative brassier, superlative brassiest)

1. Resembling brass.

   The cup had a brassy color.

2. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.

   Don't get brassy with me, young lady!

3. Unfeeling; pitiless.
4. Harsh in tone.

   an organ stop with a brassy tone

Related terms

• brass
• brazen

Translations

Etymology 2

• enPR: br?s??, IPA^(key): /?b?æs.i/
• Rhymes: -æsi

Noun

brassy (plural brassies)

1. Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”)
2. Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.