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NOISY
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Irregular inflected forms: noisier , noisiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Attracting attention by showiness or bright colors
Example:
a noisy sweater
Classified under:
Similar:
colorful; colourful (striking in variety and interest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds
Example:
a small noisy dog
Classified under:
Similar:
blatant; clamant; clamorous; strident; vociferous (conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry)
abuzz; buzzing (noisy like the sound of a bee)
clanging; clangorous (having a loud resonant metallic sound)
clanking (having a hard nonresonant metallic sound)
clattery (a rattling sound as of hard things striking together)
creaky; screaky (having a rasping or grating sound)
rackety; rip-roaring; uproarious (uncontrollably noisy)
reedy; wheezy (having a tone of a reed instrument)
stertorous (of breathing having a heavy snoring sound)
swishy (resembling a sustained 'sh' or soft whistle)
thundering (sounding like thunder)
whirring (like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings)
Also:
cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
Antonym:
quiet (free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound)
Derivation:
noise (a loud outcry of protest or complaint)
noisiness (the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise)
Context examples:
We dined at "Jack Straw's Castle" along with a little crowd of bicyclists and others who were genially noisy.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The fully-grown leghorn chicken averages 3-6 pounds in weight and is characterized by being noisy, flighty, and easily excited.
(Leghorn Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)
If the Westons think it worth while to be at all this trouble for a few hours of noisy entertainment, I have nothing to say against it, but that they shall not chuse pleasures for me.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Her accommodations were limited to a noisy parlour, and a dark bedroom behind, with no possibility of moving from one to the other without assistance, which there was only one servant in the house to afford, and she never quitted the house but to be conveyed into the warm bath.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Whilst the prince's council was sitting, Alleyne and Ford had remained in the outer hall, where they were soon surrounded by a noisy group of young Englishmen of their own rank, all eager to hear the latest news from England.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Joe Berks, who had grown noisier and more quarrelsome as the evening went on, tried to clamber across the table, with horrible blasphemies, to come to blows with an old Jew named Fighting Yussef, who had plunged into the discussion.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Some years ago, however, when she resided at Penge, she let apartments in her house to three young medical students, whom she was obliged to get rid of on account of their noisy and irregular habits.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What a strange, unaccountable character!—for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
To identify whether there are aspects of auditory perception that are universal across cultures, McDermott and his team have traveled into places ranging from Boston to remote Amazonia, where they record sounds ranging from the clatter of a noisy diner to the stillness of a woodland path.
(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)
