Roget's Thesaurus

#404. 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) 406; resonance etc. 408. vociferation, hullabaloo, etc. 411; lungs; Stentor. artillery, cannon; thunder.

Verbs

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.

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. 410 clamorous etc. (vociferous) 411 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].