Loathsome \Loath"some\, a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a
loathsome disease.
[1913 Webster]
The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.
--Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
loathsome
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: 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" [syn: disgusting, disgustful,
distasteful, foul, loathly, repellent, repellant,
repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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