Definitions for noisy
ˈnɔɪ zinoisy

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. noisyadjective

   full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds

   "a noisy cafeteria"; "a small noisy dog"

2. noisyadjective

   attracting attention by showiness or bright colors

   "a noisy sweater"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. noisyadjective

   Making a noise, especially a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

2. noisyadjective

   Full of noise.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Noisyadjective

   Etymology: from noise.

   1. Sounding loud.2. Clamorous; turbulent.

   O leave the noisy town, O come and see
   Our country cotts, and live content with me! Dryden.

   To noisy fools a grave attention lend. Smith.

   Although he employs his talents wholly in his closet, he is sure to raise the hatred of the noisy crowd. Jonathan Swift.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Noisy

   making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd

2. Noisy

   full of noise

3. Etymology: [From Noise.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Noisy

   noiz′i, adj. making a loud noise or sound: attended with noise: clamorous: turbulent.—adv. Nois′ily.—n. Nois′iness.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'noisy' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4753

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'noisy' in Adjectives Frequency: #993

Anagrams for noisy »

1. yonis

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of noisy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of noisy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of noisy in a Sentence

1. Pranab Mukherjee:

   There is a growing tendency to resort to disruption as a means of parliamentary intervention. Dissent is a recognized democratic expression, but disruption leads to loss of time and resources, and paralyses policy formulation, under no circumstances should there be disruption of the proceedings. A noisy minority cannot be allowed to gag a patient majority.

2. James Carville:

   We're letting a noisy wing of our party define the rest of us. And my point is we can't do that, i think these people are all kind of nice people. I think they're very naive, and they're all into language and identity. And that's all right. They're not storming the Capitol. But they're not winning elections.

3. Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:

   The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

4. Richard Aboulafia:

   People don't trust their neighbors, resource and territory claims require a keen knowledge of what the other guy is going, and military operations other than war demand strong situational awareness, and of course, societies, militaries, and non-state armed groups are electronically more noisy than ever, meaning countries need ISR to keep tabs on them.

5. Kevin Trenberth:

   The global mean surface temperature record is greatly affected by weather, El Nino and so forth, the ocean heat warming signal is much more visible and not as noisy.

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