| loud | (adjective) characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity | - |
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| (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly | Synonyms: forte |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adverb) with relatively high volume | Synonyms: aloud, loudly |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |
| loudly | (adverb) with relatively high volume | Synonyms: aloud, loud |
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| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly | Synonyms: forte |
| (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, obstreperously |
| loudmouth | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: blusterer |
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| loudness | (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, volume |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
| lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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| (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
| (verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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| (noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
| (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
| loungewear | (noun) clothing suitable for relaxation | - |
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| loupe | (noun) small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists | Synonyms: jeweler's loupe |
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| lour | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lower |
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| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lower, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lower |
| louse | (noun) wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | Synonyms: sucking louse |
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| (noun) any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | Synonyms: plant louse |
| (noun) wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds | Synonyms: bird louse, biting louse |
| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, worm |
| lousiness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: pediculosis |
| lousy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| (adjective) infested with lice | - |
| (adjective) vile; despicable | Synonyms: dirty, filthy |
| lout | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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| louvar | (noun) large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton | Synonyms: Luvarus imperialis |
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| louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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| louvered | (adjective) supplied with louvers for ventilation | - |
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| louvre | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louver |
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| lovable | (adjective) having characteristics that attract love or affection | Synonyms: loveable |
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| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |
| lovastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate | Synonyms: Mevacor |
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| love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
| (noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
| (noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) have a great affection or liking for | - |
| (verb) be enamored or in love with | - |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: enjoy |
| loveable | (adjective) having characteristics that attract love or affection | Synonyms: lovable |
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| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| loved | (adjective) held dear | - |
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| loveless | (adjective) receiving no love | - |
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| (adjective) without love | - |
| loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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| lovelorn | (adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: bereft, unbeloved |
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| lovely | (adjective) appealing to the emotions as well as the eye | - |
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| (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, endearing |
| (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| loverlike | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverly |
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| loverly | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverlike |
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| loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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| lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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| loving | (adjective) feeling or showing love and affection | - |
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| lovingly | (adverb) with fondness; with love | Synonyms: fondly |
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| lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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| (noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
| low | (adjective) being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension | - |
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| (adjective) less than normal in degree or intensity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: low-pitched |
| (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, lowly, modest, small |
| (adjective) no longer sufficient | Synonyms: depleted |
| (adjective) very low in volume | Synonyms: low-toned |
| (adjective) unrefined in character | - |
| (noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first, first gear, low gear |
| (noun) a low level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: depression |
| (adverb) in a low position; near the ground | - |
| (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: moo |
| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| lowborn | (adjective) of humble birth or origins | - |
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| lowboy | (noun) a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs | - |
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| lowbred | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| lowbrow | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrowed, uncultivated |
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| (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, philistine |
| lowbrowed | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrow, uncultivated |
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| lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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| (noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lowered | (adjective) below the surround or below the normal position | - |
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| lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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| (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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| lowermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, nethermost |
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| lowest | (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, last |
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| (adverb) in the lowest position; nearest the ground | - |
| lowland | (adjective) of relatively low or level country | - |
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| (noun) low level country | - |
| lowlife | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
| lowly | (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small |
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| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, menial |
| lowness | (noun) the quality of being low; lacking height | - |
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| (noun) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.) | - |
| (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness |
| (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowliness |
| lowset | (adjective) lower than average | Synonyms: low-set |
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| lox | (noun) brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked | - |
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| loxapine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Loxitane |
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| loxodrome | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: rhumb, rhumb line |
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| loyal | (adjective) steadfast in allegiance or duty | - |
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| (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: patriotic |
| (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, firm, truehearted |
| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| loyally | (adverb) with loyalty; in a loyal manner | - |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |