6. static, interference, feedback.
-v. 7. spread rumors, gossip, circulate, rumor, report, Archaic, bruit.
noiseless, adj. 1. silent, mum, still, still as death, quiet. Chiefly Literary, stilly, Archaic, hush, soundless; inaudible, soft, hushed, muted, muffled, stifled, smothered, deadened.
2. mute, Pathol, aphonic, voiceless, speechless, tongue-tied; uncommunicative, taciturn, reserved, reticent, close-mouthed, tight-lipped; (all of letters) silent, mute, unarticulated, unsounded. noisome, adj. 1. disgusting, repugnant, aversive, obnoxious, fulsome; nauseating, nauseous, Med. nau-seant, sickening, distasteful, unpalatable, unsavory, unappetizing, insipid; fetid, rancid, sour, putrid, putrescent, putrified, graveolent, rotten, stinking, rank, foul, mephitic; odorous, odoriferous, olid, Obs. olidous, stenchful, strong, whiffy; offensive, repulsive, revolting, repellent, objectionable, off-putting; nasty, unpleasant, displeasing, disagreeable; abominable, abhorrent, odious, loathsome, detestable, Brit. Inf. beastly.
2. invidious, deleterious, harmful, injurious, nocent, hurtful, crippling, impairing, scatheful, noxious, nocuous; poisonous, venomous, Pathol, septic, virulent, morbific, morbifical, morbiferous; unhealthy, unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious; pernicious, baneful, baleful, malefic, maleficent, Obs. malefical, malign, malignant, mischievous; detrimental, damaging, destructive, internecine, disastrous, ruinous, prejudicial. noisy, adj. rackety, clamorous, clamoring, boisterous, obstreperous, blustery, blusterous, brassy; riotous, uproarious, tumultuous, turbulent, pandemoniac, pandemonic; cacophonous, dissonant, discordant, harsh-sounding, harsh, grating, jarring, creaking, strident, stridulous, stridulant, stridulatory; loud, blaring, blasting, resounding, stentorian, stentorious; deafening, earsplitting, sharp, shrill, piercing, clarion; loud-mouthed, vociferous, vocal; chattering, jabbering, babbling, Inf. gabbing, SI. gassing, talking; shouting, whooping, hooting, Inf. hollering, yelling, roaring, bellowing; crying, bawling, squalling, screaming, shrieking, wailing, shrilling, screeching. nomad, n. Bedouin, nomadic Arab, Kuchi; gypsy, Romany, Bohemian; wanderer, roamer, rover, rambler, strayer, straggler, gadabout; mover, ambulator, traveler, peregrinator, journeyer, pilgrim; migrator, bird of passage, SI. rolling stone; migrant or migrant worker, itinerant, Usu. Disparaging. Okie, drifter, Inf. floater, transient, fly-by-night; vagabond, tramp, vagrant, hobo, beachcomber, derelict, street Arab; Inf. bum, SI. vag, SI. bo, SI. stiff, SI. bindlestiff, SI. canvas back. nomadic, adj. vagrant, vagabond, gypsy, bohemian; wandering, roaming, roving, rambling, straying, straggling; moving, ambulant, traveling, peregrinating, journeying; migrating, migrant, migratory, itinerant, peripatetic, drifting, floating, SI. rolling; transient, transitory, temporary, fly-by-night. nomenclature, n. terminology, taxonomy, classification, Biol, trinomialism, Zool., Bot. binomialism, Zool., Bot. binomial nomenclature, Linnean method. nominal, adj. in name only, titular, formal, (of governments) puppet; so-called, supposed, pretended, purported, represented; would-be, quasi pseudo, selfcalled, self-styled, self-christened; (of a price, consideration, etc.) token.
nominate, v. 1. (all for appointment or election to
an office) propose, name, Inf. put up; submit, present, offer.