noisome
pronunciation
How to pronounce noisome in British English:
UK [ˈnɔɪsəm]
How to pronounce noisome in American English:
US [ˈnɔɪsəm]
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- Adjective:
- causing or able to cause nausea
- offensively malodorous
Word Origin
- noisome
- noisome: [14] Noisome has no etymological connection with noise. Its closest English relative is annoy. This had a shortened from noy ‘trouble, annoy, harm’, current from the 13th to the 17th centuries, which was combined with the suffix -some to form noysome, later noisome, ‘harmful’.=> annoy
- noisome (adj.)
- late 14c., "harmful, noxious," from noye "harm, misfortune," shortened form of anoi "annoyance" (from Old French anoier, see annoy) + -some (1). Meaning "bad-smelling" first recorded 1570s. Related: Noisomeness.
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Example
- 1. The most noisome politicians of this or any other century .
- 2. They are most noisome politicians of that century .
- 3. 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 .
- 4. Thou must in no wise let him approach too near unto thee , lest he do thee damage by his noisome breath .
- 5. Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome . The landscape will get more cluttered , the air and water even dirtier .