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• (blare)- a loud, raucous noise, ( ); He had a loud voice, and
twisted his words so badly, that his singing was like the blare of a trumpet.
— Winning His Way;
• glaring intensity of light or color;
• (din)- a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy
clamor, ( ; ); To concentrate in the midst of such
a din was almost impossible. — Men of Affairs;
obstreperous = boisterous = rambunctious
• (obstreperous)- resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly,
( ; ); But so obstreperous was the crowd, that it was next to
impossible. — Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2);
• (boisterous)-rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous;
unrestrained, (( ) ; ;
); He was loud and boisterous, always laughing and singing, and
never able to work consecutively at anything. — The Souls of Black Folk;
• (rambunctious)- boisterous and disorderly; He looked like a Kentucky
colonel and was a wild, wild man with a great spreading nose and
a rambunctious soul. — The Great Escape;
dulcet = honeyed ~ euphonic ~ harmonic ~ mellifluous = mellifluent^ mellow
• (dulcet)- pleasant to the ear; melodious, (( ) ;
); Her tones are dulcet, and her voice is so mellow and well modulated
that I visualize her as another Venus. — Reveries of a Schoolmaster;
• (honeyed)- pleasantly soft; dulcet or mellifluous; The honeyed incense of
the organ, harps and trumpets was new to him and pleased his Olympian
nostrils. — Musical Memories;
• (euphonic)- agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words,
( - ); Many of our most pleasing euphonic words, especially in
the realm of music, have been given to us directly from the Italian. — How to
Speak and Write Correctly;
• (harmonic)- pleasing to the ear; He loved the pianoforte as an instrument
for personal melodic and harmonic expression, and understood the range of
its tonal resources. — Edward MacDowell;
• (mellifluous)- sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding, ((
, , ) ; ); The Russian language is
indeed more mellifluous, more lingering, more caressing, fuller of sighs than
the Polish. — Life of Chopin;
• (mellifluent)- mellifluous; Their voices are stronger and
more mellifluent than the eastern phoebe's, but the manner of delivery is not