noisy
Americanadjective
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noisier,
comparative
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noisiest
superlative
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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
Synonym Usage
See loud.
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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
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Manchester City, once seen as the noisy neighbor dwarfed by Manchester United, had combined financial might with tactical brilliance to turn the established order on its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Released in August, the band’s most recent album, “Everything’s Falling,” is a snarling, noisy and melodic rock joyride that rarely, if ever, slows down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
But late nights out, noisy flatmates and a strange new bed can mean good sleep habits go out the window.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was certainly noisy, and the resident DJ meant at times it felt more like you were in a club than an athletics meet.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But it’s too noisy outside to hear even this simple question, so Frank points to the house.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
So was my stepfather, the onetime parent of a sensibly nuclear family, who found himself in his 80s and 90s, at the head of a much longer, noisier dinner table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The satellite measurements also revealed wave-like accelerations and rapidly shifting flow structures that could have been difficult to detect in noisier datasets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
It becomes noisier, more error-prone, and easier to distrust.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
The debate about how to measure and forecast economic conditions, including productivity, is about to get a lot noisier as hearings on Warsh’s nomination loom.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
The farther they went, the brighter and noisier it became, and with every step Sefia felt Archer growing more and more tense beside her, until he seemed hard and brittle as glass.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
They represent the noisiest, most self-assured city in America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
“The ruling mutes the noisiest channel of tariff risk, but it does not end the story. It removes the air-raid siren, not the arsenal.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 22, 2026
Even though some of this season’s noisiest awards hopefuls are rooted in classic genres, there are still directors making movies that feel entirely new — and still audiences delighted to cheer for a big swing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
The one I find really grating is the traffic noise from Dhaka, Bangladesh, which has the title of the noisiest city in the world.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
It was the noisiest train she had ever been on, and it shook like it was going over a track full of rocks.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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