About The Word Loathsome
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Loathsome
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What's The Definition Of Loathsome?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Loathsome: disgustful | disgusting | distasteful | foul | loathly | nauseating | nauseous | noisome | offensive | repellant | repellent | repelling | revolting | sickening | skanky | unwholesome | vile | wicked | yucky Related Terms | Find terms related to Loathsome: 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 See Also | Loathsome In Webster's Dictionary \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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