Loathsome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     -- {Loath"some*ly}. adv. -- {Loath"some*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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