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noisy

adj
/ˈnɔɪzi/UK/ˈnɔːɪzɪ/

Etymology

From noise + -y.

  1. derived from nojé — “to bother, to annoy”
  2. derived from inodio — “to make repulsive”
  3. derived from enoiier — “to bother, to disturb”
  4. derived from noxia — “hurt, harm, damage, injury”
  5. derived from nausia
  6. derived from noise — “a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”
  7. inherited from noyse
  8. formed as noisy — “noise + -y”

Definitions

  1. Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

    • the noisy crowd.

  2. Full of noise.

    • a noisy bar
    • This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.

  3. Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention

    • noisy clothes
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Accompanied by or introducing random fluctuations that obscure the real signal or data

The neighborhood

Derived

noisily, noisiness, noisy miner, noisy pitta, noisy scrubbird, shallow brooks are noisy, unnoisy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at noisy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01noisy02unwanted03wanted04law05standards06morality07mental08disorder09disturbance

A definitional loop anchored at noisy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at noisy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA