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whitenoise

whitenoise verb: to ignore or fail to comprehend (speech or language).

Verb

whitenoise (third-person singular simple present whitenoises, present participle whitenoising, simple past and past participle whitenoised)

  1. To ignore or fail to comprehend (speech or language).
    • I've been reading some more in Spanish but I've been whitenoising a fair bit — what should I do?

Forms of whitenoise

third-person singular presentwhitenoises
present participlewhitenoising
past participlewhitenoised
pastwhitenoised

Origin of whitenoise

From white noise, in its sense of “something that goes uncomprehended”.

Questions about whitenoise

What does whitenoise mean?
Whitenoise means to ignore or fail to comprehend (speech or language).
What part of speech is whitenoise?
Whitenoise is a verb.
What is the past tense of whitenoise?
The past tense of whitenoise is whitenoised.

Words near whitenoise in the dictionary

  1. whitenizations
  2. whitenize
  3. whitenized
  4. whitenizes
  5. whitenizing
  6. whitenoise
  7. whitenose
  8. whitens
  9. whiteout
  10. whiteouts
  11. whitepaper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whitenoise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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