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noisy

[noi-zee]

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adjective, nois·i·er, nois·i·est.

making much noise: noisy children.

abounding in or full of noise: a noisy assembly hall.

characterized by much noise: a noisy celebration; a noisy protest.

Origin:
1685–95; noise + -y¹

Related forms

nois·i·ly, adverb

nois·i·ness, noun

un·nois·i·ly, adverb

un·nois·y, adjective

Can be confused: noisome, noisy.

Synonyms
1. clamorous, tumultuous, uproarious; vociferous. See loud.

Antonyms
1. quiet.

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Arguments over noisy dogs and power tools can turn suburban neighbors into angry adversaries.

The airwaves and best-seller lists are noisy with anti-intellectual jeers.

In an already noisy world an arms race of sound is not to be welcomed.

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Arguments over noisy dogs and power tools can turn suburban neighbors into angry adversaries.

The airwaves and best-seller lists are noisy with anti-intellectual jeers.

In an already noisy world an arms race of sound is not to be welcomed.

If noisy chewing bothers you, never date a sea urchin.

If it starts to fail, the computer can crash accidentally when the power supply generates a noisy signal.

Perhaps you're tired of the noisy dishwasher or the oven that heats unevenly.

Great call quality and noise-canceling performance across dirty air and noisy environments.

The ocean is often thought of as quiet and idyllic, but its residents are actually a noisy bunch.

Then noisy crackling announces radiation levels that can be thousands of times as high as normal.

It is far easier and cheaper to engineer the noisy machinery to be quiet in the first place.

When looking for first homes, reef fish tend toward noisy reefs, new experiments show.

Overall, areas around noisy compression stations had one third fewer birds than quiet sites.

The other thing that could be happening is you might have a noisy dishwasher.

The world is noisy enough without adding completely useless aural pollution to the mix.

Clifton is far from alone in seeking to silence noisy dogs.

We live in a noisy culture, much of it superficial but some of it serious noise.

It's also pretty unusual to stay sound asleep through landing-that's a pretty noisy experience.

When conditions change, noisy pink clouds scud toward the next lake.

The plane is noisy and cold, but the view is wonderful.

The planes are propeller-driven, so they're relatively noisy.

Some patients' noisy artificial hips are interrupting daily life and raising questions about more serious problems.

They're noisy and all they do is blow around leaves.

And on the rare occasions when projects are suggested, they are often met with noisy outrage.

Visit the forests and you might encounter noisy flocks of sooty babblers perched in bamboo thickets.

And if you doze off in a noisy environment, the cacophony might conceivably fortify recollections you might prefer to forget.

The unit also has a noise cancelling mic for those noisy truck cabs.

Noisy civil servants have forced the government to abandon planned reforms.

The snakes' colors can resemble venomous coral snakes, and the creatures can mimic a rattlesnake's noisy tail shake.

And probably not auditory because it's so noisy in the hive.

It is the combustion of fossil fuels to drive a conventional aircraft that makes them so noisy.

Environmentalists attacked its noisy sonic boom and its fuel consumption.

Given the cranes' size and noisy call, it's surprising this hasn't already happened.

The old, small turbines were a noisy eyesore because so many of them were needed.

Hundreds of cars operating at thousands of horsepower make for an intensely noisy environment.

The climate is a noisy thing, with ups and downs of its own that can make trends hard to detect.

The monkeys then alert the surrounding forest with their noisy howls.

Before introducing them the hospital often relied on a noisy public paging system to send messages to nurses and other staff.

The large black birds with a noisy squawk have traditionally held the role of evil-doer or thief in fable and fairy-tales.

Nannies in crisp white uniforms try to shush noisy babies.

They can fly and launch themselves airborne with an abrupt, noisy takeoff, but typically run from trouble.

The opposition, meanwhile, has stepped up its noisy demands for a parliamentary probe into the affair.

Even on streets noisy again with traffic, strangers say good morning.

Their design eliminated the leak-prone, noisy mechanical compressor of standard fridges.

Magellanic penguins are a noisy bunch and their call resembles the braying of a donkey.

Sulawesi hornbills gather in great noisy flocks to feed on fruits and insects.

What were quiet streets can become noisy as new student neighbors move.

Meanwhile, the government is rallying its own noisy supporters.

Birds don't fly towards planes because they are scared of a noisy big plane.

Debarking, a procedure to quiet noisy dogs, is falling out of favor with veterinarians and animal rights advocates.

Gymboree sells children's clothes and operates centres where children can play noisy games on brightly coloured soft mats.

For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only.

To the list of new irritants, some might add this one: noisy restaurants.

The scent of blood and infection combined with the noisy calls of ravens eventually lured.

He's discussing our ability to detect that warming trend in a noisy signal over a short period.

If you're having a hard time following a conversation at a noisy party, speak up and ask for some clarification.

It's possible to identify a potentially noisy apartment building before you pack the first box.

It is only a small group of noisy right-wing iconoclasts who continue to dissent not on the basis of science, but on politics.

But helicopters are noisy and not all that fuel efficient.

But it is also a noisy political arena, a rough-and-tumble democracy in which.

But the problem with synthetic aperture radar is the pixel size and noisy quality of the data.

Astrophotographers are using digital-editing tools to find the truth in the noisy data that are the heavens.

But it is noisy and expensive to operate, and so has no applications beyond the role for which it was originally designed.

It's got a large, powerful speaker on the back that can play audio over the noisy sounds of traffic and other loud ambient.

Those weird and wonderful creatures can be awfully noisy.

And if you switch off your flashlight, you'll be in darkness so complete it'll make a coffin seem bright and noisy.

Call quality was impressive, and voices rang true even in noisy environs.

Instead, the female joins others of her species in a large, noisy colony and lays a single egg on a narrow cliff ledge.

Emitting noisy grunts and snorts, it wanders alone, usually at night.

In the night a storm came over us and the wind was so noisy that it was impossible to sleep.

Songbirds filled the air, interrupted only by the noisy black crows that hopped from tree to ground and back again.

Cool air from the thermal exchanger is then fanned into the hotel, without the need for bulky, noisy compressors.

Also he barks at my daughter's battery powered quad and usually the car or other noisy things.

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World English Dictionary

noisy (ˈnɔɪzɪ)

—*adj* , noisier, noisiest
1.	making a loud or constant noise
2.	full of or characterized by noise

'noisily

—*adv*

'noisiness

—n

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