different between loud vs resoundingly

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

resounding +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /???za?nd??li/

Adverb

resoundingly (comparative more resoundingly, superlative most resoundingly)

1. With a loud, resonant sound.

   The bells tolled resoundingly.

2. (by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.

   The children resoundingly defeated the bully.

Quotations

• 1859 - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, chapter 6

  The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.

• 1909 - H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica, a modern love story, chapter XIII

  Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase;

• 1939 - Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire

  "Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!"

• 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 5

  My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.

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