Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See
Annoy.]
1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome;
insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome
pestilence." --Ps. xci. 3.
[1913 Webster]
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
"Foul breath is noisome." --Shak.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
noisome
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
nauseous, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: fetid, foetid,
foul, foul-smelling, funky, smelly, putrid, stinking]
WordNet (r) 2.0
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "noisome":
abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad for,
bad-smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly,
below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal,
cloying, contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive,
corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, crude, damaging, deadly,
deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire,
dirty, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing,
dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, fetid, filthy,
flagrant, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky,
fusty, gamy, graveolent, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful,
heinous, high, horrible, horrid, hurtful, icky, ignoble,
ill-smelling, infamous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary,
lamentable, lethal, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malefic, malevolent,
malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, monstrous, morbific, musty,
nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous,
notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
odorous, offensive, olid, ominous, outrageous, overripe,
pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pitiable, pitiful,
poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty,
reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent,
reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad,
scandalous, scatheful, schlock, scurvy, septic, shabby, shameful,
shocking, shoddy, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly,
sordid, spoiled, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
sulfurous, tainted, terrible, too bad, toxic, unclean, unhealthful,
unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous,
virulent, vomity, weevily, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched,
yucky
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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