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Noisome

Definition: Noisome

Noisome

Adjective

1. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench".

2. Offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "noisome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Noisome \Noi"some\, adjective. [For noysome, from noy for annoy. See Annoy.]. (references)

 

Synonyms: Noisome

Synonyms: fetid (adj), foetid (adj), foul (adj), foul-smelling (adj), funky (adj), loathsome (adj), nauseating (adj), nauseous (adj), offensive (adj), putrid (adj), sickening (adj), smelly (adj), stinking (adj), vile (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Noisome

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Adjective: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.

Insalubrity

Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Noisome

Etymologies containing "noisome": Odium. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Noisome

"Noisome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Noisome" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Noisome

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translation: Noisome

Language Translations for "noisome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kutërbues (nippy, Reeky), i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, pathological, patient, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i qelbur (dead, dirty, fetid, foetid, mangy, nasty, putrid, stinking), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury), i dëmshëm (baneful, damnific, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, injurious, malefic, maleficent, malign, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, unwholesome). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كريه الرائحة (fetid, foetid, fusty, malodorous, rank, smelling, smelly, stinking), ‏مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked), ‏مثير للإشمئزاز (shocking), ‏ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, sharp, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смраден, гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), нездравословен (insalubrious, insanitary, noxious, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome), нездрав (feverish, insalubrious, morbid, sallow, unhealthy, unsound), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous), пакостен (elvish, harmful, maleficent, mischievous, noxious, wicked). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zhoubný (baleful, baneful, deadly, destructive, hurtful, malign, malignant, pernicious, ruinous, unwholesome, virulent), smrdutý (mephitis, rank), protivný (aggravating, beastly, bitchy, disagreeable, hateful, horrid, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, obnoxious, odious), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), škodlivý (bad, damaging, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references)

   

French

  

nuisible (noxious), nocif, repoussant, répugnant. (various references)

   

German

  

widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, lousy, lurid, nasty, nauseating, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλαβερόσ (deleterious, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malign, noxious), δυσώδησ (fetid, stench, stinking), δυσάρεστοσ (disagreeable, displeasing, nasty, objectionable, ungracious, unpleasant, unsatisfactory). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעורר בחיל" (horrid), מסלי" (antipathetic, nauseous, repulsive). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kellemetlen (awkward, bad, bothersome, churlish, crabby, cumbersome, cumbrous, disagreeable, disappointing, displeasing, effing, evil, galling, grotty, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inconvenient, irksome, jarring, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, pesky, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, poisonous, to be in a hole, trying, unaffected, ungracious, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, untoward). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nocivo (adverse, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, noxious), puzzolente (bad-smelling, rank, reeking, smelly, stinking), disgustoso (abhorrent, disgustful, disgusting, fulsome, nasty, nauseous, queasy, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gorley nieuagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oisomenay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

nocivo (adverse, bad, foul, hurtful, injurious, nocuous, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, wrongful), prejudical (mischievous, noxious), malcheiroso (malodorant, malodorous, smelly, unsavory, unsavoury), fétido (feculent, fetid, foetid, malodorant, malodorous, putrescent, rammish, rank, unsavory, unsavoury), daninho (adverse, harmful, malign, noxious, pernicious), com mau cheiro (rank). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vãtãmãtor (baleful, baneful, cankerous, deleterious, harmful, injurious, maleficent, mischievous, noxious), urât mirositor (odoriferous), rãu mirositor (fetid, malodorous, Reeky, Sniffy), otrãvitor (baneful, corrupting, fatal, noxious, perverting, poisoner, poisonous, venomous), dãunãtor (bad, baleful, evil, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malign, mischievous, pest, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicially, sinister). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вредный (bad, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, malign, nocuous, noxious, parlous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unwholesome, wrongful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

gnusan (abominable, damnable, detestable, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nasty, sickening), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile), štetan (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, prejudicial). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

maloliente (frowzy, malodorant, malodorous, rank, smelly, stinking), fétido (fetid, foetid, foul, stank, stinking), asqueroso (augean, beastly, crappy, disgusting, distasteful, foul, gross, loathsome, lousy, mucky, nasty, putrid, rancid, revolting, sordid, squalid, ugly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skadlig (adverse, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, evil, harmful, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malign, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial). (various references)

   

Thai

  

น่ารังเกียจ (clingin, foul, hateable, icky-poo, loathsome, lousy, obnoxious, obscene, odious, putrid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), pis kokulu (fetid, malodorous, mephitic, Reeky, smelly, stinking), muzır (harmful, malefic, noxious, pernicious), mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, nauseous, qualmish, queasy, sick, sickening, sickly), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), гидкий (abominable, beastly, fulsome), вонючий (rammish), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly), нездоровий (ailing, decadent, feverish, indisposed, insalubrious, noxious, off color, off colour, sickly, unfit, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, useless), бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, damned, hideous, loathful, nasty, offensive, sickening). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), độc hại cho sức khoẻ hôi thối. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Noisome

LanguageDateSourceEzekiel Chapter 14, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEan kai qhria ponhra epagw epi thn ghn kai timwrhsomai authn kai estai eiV afanismon kai ouk estai o diodeuwn apo proswpou twn qhriwn
Latin405VulgateQuod si et bestias pessimas induxero super terram ut vastem eam et fuerit invia eo quod non sit pertransiens propter bestias
Middle English1395WyclifThat and if I shal lede yn werst beestis vpon the loond, that I waste it, and it shal be vnwaied, or wayles, for that there is no passynge bi it for beestis,
Jacobean English1611King JamesIf I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Victorian English1833WebsterIf I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they lay it waste, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Basic English1964OgdenOr if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Noisome

LanguageEzekiel Chapter 14, Verse 15
CebuanoKong paagion ko ang mga dautan mananap latas sa yuta, ug sila magaguba niini, ug kini mahimo nga kamingawan, sa pagkaagi nga walay tawo nga makaagi tungod sa mga mananap:
CroatianTakoðer, ako na tu zemlju pustim divlje zvijeri da joj djecu unište a nju pretvore u pustinju, kojom se zbog zvijeri više nitko neæe usuditi proæi;
DanishEller lader jeg Rovdyr fare igennem Landet og gøre det folketomt, så det bliver øde og ingen tør gå derigennem for de vilde Dyr,
DutchZo Ik het boos gedierte make door het land door te gaan, hetwelk dat van kinderen berove, zodat het woest worde, dat er niemand doorga, vanwege het gedierte;
FinnishJos minä antaisin pahain petoeläinten käydä halki maan ja ne riistäisivät siltä lapset ja se tulisi autioksi, niin ettei kukaan siellä kulkisi petoeläinten tähden,
GermanUnd wenn ich böse Tiere in das Land bringen würde, die die Leute aufräumten und es verwüsteten, daß niemand darin wandeln könnte vor den Tieren,
HungarianHa gonosz vadállatokat bocsátanék át az országon, hogy azt gyermektelenné tegyék, és az pusztává lenne, a melyen senki át nem menne a vadállatok miatt:
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariBoleh jadi Aku mendatangkan binatang-binatang buas untuk menerkam penduduk negeri itu, sehingga daerah itu menjadi sangat berbahaya dan tak seorang pun berani melewatinya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaAtau apabila Aku membiarkan suatu negeri kepada binatang yang buas-buas akan menghabiskan orang isinya, sehingga negeri itu menjadi sunyi senyap, seorangpun tiada lalu dari sana sebab takut akan binatang yang buas itu;
ItalianOppure se io infestassi quel paese di bestie feroci, che lo privassero dei suoi figli e ne facessero un deserto che nessuno potesse attraversare a causa delle bestie feroci,
MaoriKi te meinga e ahau he kirehe kino kia tika na waenganui i te whenua, a ka kore i a ratou, ka whakamotitia, a kahore he tangata e haere ana i reira i te wehi o nga kirehe:
NorwegianOm jeg lot ville dyr fare gjennem landet, og de gjorde det folketomt, og det blev til en ørken, så ingen kunde dra gjennem det for de ville dyrs skyld,
PortugueseSe eu fizer passar pela terra bestas feras, e estas a assolarem, de modo que ela fique desolada, sem que ninguém possa passar por ela por causa das feras;   
Rumanian,,Dacq aw lqsa ca yara sq fie cutreieratq de fiare sqlbatice, cari ar lqsa -o fqrq popor, dacq ar ajunge un pustiu pe unde n`ar mai putea trece nimeni, din pricina acestor fiare,
SpanishSi yo hago pasar fieras dañinas por la tierra, y éstas la privan de sus habitantes, y ella queda desolada, de modo que no haya quien pase por ella a causa de las fieras;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Noisome

Derivations

Words beginning with "noisome": noisomely, noisomeness, noisomenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Noisome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Niasami, niosomes, noisenik, noisom, notsome, noysome, Zosimo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Noisome"

Words rhyming with "noisome" (pronounced 'Noi"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Blithesome, Brightsome, Darksome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, handsome, irksome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Unhandsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Noisome

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-o-o-s"

-1 letter: eonism, monies, simoon.

-2 letters: eosin, meson, miens, mines, monie, monos, moons, moose, noise, nomes, nomoi, nomos, noose, omens.

-3 letters: eons, ions, meno, mien, mine, mise, miso, mono, mons, moon, moos, nims, noes, nome, noms, nose, omen, ones, semi, sine, some, sone, soon.

-4 letters: ems, ens, eon, ins, ion, ism, men, mis, mon, moo, mos.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: dominoes, emotions, empoison, ionomers, monodies, mooniest, moonrise, oinomels, simoleon.

 

+2 letters: bionomies, bonhomies, demotions, economics, economies, economise, economist, empoisons, isonomies, monecious, monoecies, monoecism, monoxides, moodiness, moonrises, moonshine, motioners, neologism, noisomely, noontimes, omnivores, remotions, roominess, semicolon, simoleons.

 

+3 letters: aeronomies, aeronomist, agronomies, autonomies, conominees, cosmogenic, diseconomy, economised, economises, economists, economizes, embosoming, empoisoned, ergonomics, ergonomist, gloominess, homogenies, homogenise, homogonies, homonymies, incommodes, kinetosome, menologies, meromyosin, microtones, monitories, monoamines, monoclines, monoecious, monoecisms, monogamies, monogenies, monogynies, monologies, monopodies, monopolies, monopolise, monosomies, monostelic, monotheism, monotheist, monotonies, monzonites, moonfishes, moonshiner, moonshines, moronities, motionless, neologisms, nomologies, semicolons, semicolony, snowmobile, spoonerism, taxonomies, tenotomies, theonomies, toponymies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Bible Trace
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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