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NOISOME
Definition of NOISOME
adjective
Morally hurtful or noxious.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
NOISOME carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul.
“a noisome odor.”
adjective
Harmful or dangerous.
“noisome fumes.”
Hurtful; mischievous; noxious: as, a noisome pestilence.
Offensive to sight or smell, especially to the latter; producing loathing or disgust; disgusting; specifically, ill-smelling.
Where it comes from
From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare, from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (“hate”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
NOISOME in a sentence
“Madden disappeared and presently his "noisome" snores filled the air.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NOISOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 131 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NOISOME starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMNOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of NOISOME. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NOISOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found NOISOME?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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