🔊 Making loud sounds 🔊 Making noise

noisemaking

3.9

Making loud sounds on purpose

adjective
/ˈnɔɪzˌmeɪkɪŋ/

: ruidoso

Some people find noisemaking activities distracting when they are trying to concentrate.

Examples

The teacher confiscated all noisemaking toys before the test began.
The noisemaking machine kept everyone awake at night.
During the celebration, noisemaking devices filled the air with sound and excitement.
Why is that noisemaking device so loud?
The party featured a noisemaking machine that produced fun sounds during games.
The children played with noisemaking toys that rattled and jingled as they moved.
The festival included noisemaking fireworks that lit up the night sky with loud bangs.

Synonyms

noise

vsnoisemaking

∞ 1.0

A loud, unpleasant sound that disturbs you

refers to producing that sound deliberately as a purpose or feature

noise pollution

vsnoisemaking

3 3.2

Loud or unwanted sounds made by people that bother others and can harm health

stresses deliberate production of loud persistent sounds rather than only health harm

noisiness

vsnoisemaking

1 2.5

Loud sounds that continue and make it hard to think or sleep

emphasizes intentionally producing the disturbance rather than the state itself

racketiness

vsnoisemaking

9.0

A loud, constant noise that makes it hard to think

focuses on intentionally producing such loud constant sounds as a purpose

sound pollution

vsnoisemaking

3.7

Loud unwanted noise that disturbs people and can harm health

focuses on intentionally creating those harmful environmental sounds for a purpose

Antonyms

quiet

∞ 1.0

Not making much noise

silence

660 2.0

A period with no sound or speech

Surface Forms

noisemaking positive

Etymology

Noisemaking is simply the two words noise and making put together. Noise means 'a loud or annoying sound' and making means 'producing', so something described as noisemaking is meant to produce loud or repeated sound.