outdoor voice

Volume for distance

A loud speaking voice suitable for outdoor spaces, used especially in the phrase use your outdoor voice or its opposite, use your indoor voice—a gentle correction parents give children who are being too loud inside.

The outdoor voice is the one you'd use calling across a playground or cheering at a game.

Related

loud · full volume · loud and clear · projecting · roar · boisterous · volume · speak up · children · cheer · uninhibited · exuberant · raucous · playground · vociferous · scream · assertiveness · bellow

Categories
Opposites
volume level

outdoor voiceindoor voice

Softer speaking volume

whisper · soft voice · quiet voice · murmur · low voice

social appropriateness context

outdoor voiceindoor voice

Softer speaking volume

library voice · inside voice · respectful tone

Family

outdoor, voice, door, outdoors, doors, voiced, voices, voicing, voiceless

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G