noisy
Americanadjective
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making much noise.
noisy children.
- Synonyms:
- vociferous, uproarious, tumultuous, clamorous
- Antonyms:
- quiet
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abounding in or full of noise.
a noisy assembly hall.
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characterized by much noise.
a noisy celebration; a noisy protest.
adjective
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making a loud or constant noise
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full of or characterized by noise
Related Words
See loud.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of noisy
Explanation
Anything noisy is loud. Your noisy party probably won't go over too well with your downstairs neighbors — especially if it's late on a Tuesday night and they have a sleeping baby. Something that makes loud sounds or is generally rowdy and boisterous can be called noisy. A noisy bar is a harder place to have a conversation than a quiet restaurant, but a noisy dance party tends to me much more fun than a solemn tea party with your cranky grandparents. Before there was noisy, around the late 1600s, the adjective was noiseful. Curiously, experts guess that the Latin root of noisy and noise is nausea, "seasickness."
Vocabulary lists containing noisy
Example Sentences
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Noisy circuits may appear trainable, but this is partly because noise has already reduced their effective complexity.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Noisy background characters, even people who are barely onscreen, make themselves heard whenever the film itself has to check off another trope.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
Noisy campaign groups orchestrating blanket bombing of inboxes?
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
Noisy demonstrations where protesters banged pots and pans have all but faded.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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