loathsome
1. causing or able to cause nausea (Freq. 1)
- a nauseating smell
- nauseous offal
- a sickening stench
• Syn:
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, offensive,
sickening, vile
• Similar to:
unwholesome
• Derivationally related forms:
vileness (for: vile), sickeningness (for: sickening), offensiveness (for: offensive), offend (for: offensive), loathsomeness, noisomeness (for: noisome), nausea (for: nauseous), nauseatingness (for: nauseating)
2. highly offensive;
arousing aversion or disgust (Freq. 1)
- 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,
loathly, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky,
wicked, yucky
• Similar to:
offensive
• Derivationally related forms:
wickedness (for: wicked), skank (for: skanky), repel (for: repellant), repel (for: repellent), loathsomeness, distastefulness (for: distasteful), disgustingness (for: disgusting)
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