rackety.

1. Making repeated, disruptive noise.

2. Marked by unsettled, disreputable, or excessively pleasure-seeking social behavior.

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Words that belong together

• a rackety machine
• a rackety street
• a rackety old bus

On the page

The rackety lift announced every visitor before the doors opened.

A rackety bus passed the window just as she began the confession.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative racketier; superlative racketiest; more and most rackety also occur. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.