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# noisome

adjective (noisome; more noisome, most noisome — formal, literary)

«noisome» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (literary) Having a very nasty smell: «a noisome swamp». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#m1)
2. (old) Harmful or very unpleasant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#m2)

### In the lessons

A rare literary word for disgusting places in stories: dungeons, sewers, rubbish tips. In the Bible (Psalm 91) God protects from «the noisome pestilence» (a harmful disease).

### Examples

- A noisome smell came from the drain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x1)
- The prisoners lay in a noisome dungeon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x2)
- Flies buzzed over the noisome rubbish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x3)
- The psalm speaks of the noisome pestilence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x4)
- The pond had become a noisome swamp. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x5)
- We held our noses near the noisome bins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x6)
- "No," replied the sturdy lad, "the pigeon is for my seven blind mothers, who live in the noisome dungeon, and who would die if I did not bring them food." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/#x7)

### Note

Trap: «noisome» has nothing to do with noise! It comes from an old word «noy» (annoy). It means smelly or harmful, not loud.

## In Jewish tradition

It means harmful and foul, as in a deadly plague or bad weeds, or a sore with a bad smell. In the primary lessons: A rare literary word for disgusting places in stories: dungeons, sewers, rubbish tips. In the Bible (Psalm 91) God protects from «the noisome pestilence» (a harmful disease).

### Examples

- My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x1)
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x2)
- That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (Writings PSA.91.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x3)

### Note

Trap: «noisome» has nothing to do with noise! It comes from an old word «noy» (annoy). It means smelly or harmful, not loud.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «noisome» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noisome/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «noisome» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«noisome» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/noisome.html) on Mova free.