Noisy
['nɒɪzɪ] or ['nɔɪzi]
Definition
(adj.) attracting attention by showiness or bright colors; 'a noisy sweater' .
(adj.) full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds; 'a noisy cafeteria'; 'a small noisy dog' .
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.
(superl.) Full of noise.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Clamorous, boisterous, turbulent, vociferous, obstreperous, blatant, brawling, blustering, uproarious, tumultuous, riotous.
Editor: Tess
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loud, clamorous, stunning
ANT:Still, soft, inaudible, whispering, soothing, musical, melodious, harmonious,tuneful, subdued, gentle, noiseless
Edited by Clare
Definition
adj. making a loud noise or sound: attended with noise: clamorous: turbulent.—adv. Nois′ily.—n. Nois′iness.
Checked by Antoine
Examples
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. Plato. The Republic.
- The man's footsteps were so noisy on the echoing stones that he was unwilling to add the sound of his own. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He laughed aloud at trifles, made bad jokes and applauded them himself, and, in short, grew unmeaningly noisy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No dirty little legs to run about on, and no noisy little lungs to scream with. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He grew vehement --was again refused, and became noisy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A modern steamer, with a noisy screw beating the waters, is enough to scare away all the nymphs in the vicinity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Women and children shrieked, and men encouraged each other with noisy shouts and cheers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In Germany it centred upon the crown; its noisiest, most conspicuous advocate was the heir-apparent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Ellis