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Definition: Noisome |
NoisomeAdjective1. 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: NoisomeSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Noisome |
| Etymologies containing "noisome": Odium. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
noisome | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 14, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean kai qhria ponhra epagw epi thn ghn kai timwrhsomai authn kai estai eiV afanismon kai ouk estai o diodeuwn apo proswpou twn qhriwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quod si et bestias pessimas induxero super terram ut vastem eam et fuerit invia eo quod non sit pertransiens propter bestias |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That 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 English | 1611 | King James | If 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 English | 1833 | Webster | If 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 English | 1964 | Ogden | Or 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. | |||
| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 14, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Kong 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: |
| Croatian | Takoðer, 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; |
| Danish | Eller lader jeg Rovdyr fare igennem Landet og gøre det folketomt, så det bliver øde og ingen tør gå derigennem for de vilde Dyr, |
| Dutch | Zo 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; |
| Finnish | Jos minä antaisin pahain petoeläinten käydä halki maan ja ne riistäisivät siltä lapset ja se tulisi autioksi, niin ettei kukaan siellä kulkisi petoeläinten tähden, |
| German | Und wenn ich böse Tiere in das Land bringen würde, die die Leute aufräumten und es verwüsteten, daß niemand darin wandeln könnte vor den Tieren, |
| Hungarian | Ha 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-hari | Boleh 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 Lama | Atau 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; |
| Italian | Oppure 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, |
| Maori | Ki 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: |
| Norwegian | Om 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, |
| Portuguese | Se 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, |
| Spanish | Si 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. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "noisome": noisomely, noisomeness, noisomenesses. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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