English > noisy: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds. |
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| Examples | - "a noisy cafeteria"
- "a small noisy dog"
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| Narrower | abuzz, buzzing | noisy like the sound of a bee |
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| blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous | conspicuously and offensively loud |
| clangorous, clanging | Having a loud resonant metallic sound |
| clanking | Having a hard nonresonant metallic sound |
| clattery | A rattling sound as of hard things striking together |
| creaky, screaky | Having a rasping or grating sound |
| rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious | uncontrollably noisy |
| reedy, wheezy | Having a tone of a reed instrument |
| stertorous | Of breathing having a heavy snoring sound |
| swishy | resembling a sustained 'sh' or soft whistle |
| thundering | sounding like thunder / thunder |
| whirring | like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings |
| See also | cacophonous, cacophonic | Having an unpleasant sound |
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| loud | Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity |
| Opposite | quiet | Free of noise or uproar |
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| Spanish | escandaloso, ruidoso |
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| Catalan | escandalós, sorollós |
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| Nouns | noise | a loud outcry of protest or complaint |
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| noisiness | the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise |
| Adverbs | noisily | with much noise or loud and unpleasant sound |
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