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noyous

UK/ˈnɔɪəs/

noyous adjective: troublesome; harmful, injurious.

Adjective

noyous (comparative more noyous, superlative most noyous)

  1. (archaic) Troublesome; harmful, injurious.
    • The falſe Dueſſa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to ſtately pallace of Dame Pryde;[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72

Forms of noyous

comparativemore noyous
superlativemost noyous

Origin of noyous

From Middle English noyous; equivalent to noy + -ous.

Questions about noyous

What does noyous mean?
Noyous means troublesome; harmful, injurious.
What part of speech is noyous?
Noyous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce noyous?
Noyous is pronounced /ˈnɔɪəs/ (UK).

Words near noyous in the dictionary

  1. noyment
  2. noynoying
  3. Noyola
  4. Noyolas
  5. noyon
  6. noyous
  7. Noypi
  8. Noypis
  9. noys
  10. noyse
  11. noyses

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