Sonorous vs Loud - What's the difference?
sonorous | loud |
Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
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Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
* Addison
* E. Everett
Wordy or grandiloquent.
(of a sound) Of great intensity.
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Noisy.
* Bible, Proverbs vii. 11
Not subtle or reserved, brash.
Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
As an adjective sonorous
is capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.As a proper noun loud is
.sonorous
English
Alternative forms
* sonourous (rare)Adjective
(en adjective)- The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
- There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
loud
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Alternative forms
* lowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- She is loud and stubborn.