noisy

English

Etymology

noise +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔɪzi/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːɪzɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪzi

Adjective

noisy (comparative noisier, superlative noisiest)

1. Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

   Synonyms: clamorous, vociferous, turbulent, boisterous

   the noisy crowd.

2. Full of noise.

   a noisy bar

3. Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention

   noisy clothes

4. (technical) Accompanied by or introducing random fluctuations that obscure the real signal or data
   • 2024 March 28, Nate Silver, “How culture trumps economic class as the new political fault line”, in Silver Bulletin‎^[1]:

     Looked at more carefully, and over a longer time period, the relationship between the economy and the incumbent’s performance is positive, but noisy. “The incumbent wins when the economy is good” is a useful, weak prior, but not an iron law, and one that historically has had many exceptions.

Derived terms

• noisily
• noisiness
• noisy miner
• noisy pitta
• noisy scrubbird
• shallow brooks are noisy

 

Translations

making a noise

• Arabic: صَارِخ (ṣāriḵ), صاخِب (ṣāḵib), ضَاجّ (ḍājj)

  Egyptian Arabic: مزعج (mozʕeg)

• Armenian: աղմկոտ (hy) (aġmkot), աղմկալի (hy) (aġmkali), աղմկարար (hy) (aġmkarar)
• Azerbaijani: səs-küylü
• Belarusian: шу́мны (šúmny), гу́чны (húčny), тлу́мны (tlúmny)
• Bikol Central: maribok (bcl)
• Bulgarian: шу́мен (bg) (šúmen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sorollós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吵鬧／吵闹 (zh) (chǎonào), 吵 (zh) (chǎo)

• Czech: hlučný (cs)
• Danish: støjende
• Dutch: lawaaierig (nl)
• Esperanto: brua
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: äänekäs (fi)
• French: bruyant (fr), tonitruant (fr)
• Galician: ruidoso, barulleiro (gl), barullento
• Georgian: ხმაურიანი (xmauriani)
• German: laut (de), geräuschvoll (de)
• Greek: θορυβώδης (el) (thoryvódis)
• Hebrew: רועש
• Hungarian: zajos (hu), hangos (hu)
• Iban: ragak
• Ingrian: äänekäs
• Irish: glórach, callánach
• Italian: rumoroso (it)
• Japanese: うるさい (ja) (urusai), 騒がしい (ja) (さわがしい, sawagashii)
• Jeju: 우르사이 (ureusai)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 시끄럽다 (ko) (sikkeureopda)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sonāx
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: Triukšmauti
• Macedonian: бучен (bučen)
• Malay: ramai (ms)
• Maori: hoihoi, turituri, makekeno, tīhoihoi, tawetawē, haunene, kurupākara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støyende, bråket, bråkete, høylytt (no)

  Nynorsk: bråkete

• Plautdietsch: lud
• Polish: hałaśliwy (pl), głośny (pl), huczny (pl)
• Portuguese: barulhento (pt), ruidoso (pt)
• Romanian: zgomotos (ro), gălăgios (ro)
• Russian: шу́мный (ru) (šúmnyj), шумли́вый (ru) (šumlívyj)
• Samoan: pisa
• Scottish Gaelic: faramach, fuaimneach
• Serbo-Croatian: bȕčan (sh), glȁsan (sh)
• Slovak: hlučný
• Slovene: glasen (sl), hrupen
• Spanish: ruidoso (es)
• Swedish: högljudd (sv), bullersam (sv)
• Tagalog: maingay
• Tetum: tarutu
• Thai: ดัง (th) (dang)
• Tongan: longoaʻaʻia
• Turkish: gürültülü (tr)
• Ukrainian: гучни́й (hučnýj), голосни́й (holosnýj), шу́мний (šúmnyj), галасли́вий (halaslývyj)
• Vietnamese: ồn (vi),ầm (vi)

full of noise

• Bau Bidayuh: bido'ong
• Bikol Central: maribok (bcl)
• Bulgarian: шумен (bg) (šumen)
• Catalan: sorollós (ca)
• Finnish: meluisa (fi)
• French: bruyant (fr)
• Georgian: ხმაურიანი (xmauriani)
• Greek: θορυβώδης (el) (thoryvódis)
• Hebrew: רעשני
• Indonesian: ribut (id)
• Irish: callánach
• Italian: chiassoso (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sonābilis
• Malay: bising (ms)
• Maori: māniania, tawetawē, kurupākara
• Plautdietsch: lud
• Sanskrit: तुमुल (sa) (tumula)
• Tibetan: སྐད་ཅོར་ཚ་པོ (skad cor tsha po)

References

• “noisy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• yonis