Meaning of LOATHSOME
| Pronunciation: | | 'lowdhsum
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- [adj] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
- [adj] causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
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| | Synonyms: | | disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, sickening, skanky, unwholesome, vile, wicked, yucky |
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| | Definition: | | \Loath"some\, a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
--Macaulay.
-- {Loath"some*ly}. adv. -- {Loath"some*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched |
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