Definitions for noisome

noisome noi·some

Spelling: [noi-suh m]
IPA: /ˈnɔɪ səm/

Noisome is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in noisome (eimnoos).

Definitions for noisome

adjective

  1. offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
  2. harmful or injurious to health; noxious.

Origin of noisome

1350-1400; Middle English noy (aphetic variant of annoy) + -some1

Examples for noisome

We shouted for help, or to be liberated from our noisome prison.

The atmosphere of the room seemed to become heavy and noisome.

It seemed a lifetime that he had lived in the noisome atmosphere of a felon's cell.

“No, with me,” said Mark, quickly; and he stepped to the mouth of the noisome pit.

His great soul could not support him under these noisome and degrading incidents.

They are "safe, because they are too filthy to handle, and too noisome even to approach."

Already one of the most noisome of the plagues of Egypt was among us.

The air was noisome with dead tobacco smoke and the fumes of stale beer.

It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.

On the moist and noisome floor is a mat; on the mat an old man dying.

Word Value for noisome
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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