Word Meanings - LOATHSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOATHSOME)

• Abominable
• Abhorrent
• foul
• accursed
• detestable
• hateful
• horrible
• loathsome
• odious
• offensive
• execrable
• nauseous
• impure
• Execrable
• Detestable
• cursed
• villainous
• diabolical
• abominable
• Fulsome
• Excessive
• gross
• sickening
• fawning
• Hateful
• vile
• heinous
• repulsive
• Mawkish
• Sickly
• sentimental
• maudlin
• insipid
• flat

Related words: (words related to LOATHSOME)

• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• MAWKISHLY
  In a mawkish way.
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• MAWKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.
• NAUSEOUS
  Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• MAUDLINWORT
  The oxeye daisy.
• HEINOUS
  Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn.
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• CURST
  imp. & p.p. of Curse.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• SICKENING
  Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.
• MAWKISH
  1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.
• DECURSIVELY
  In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• INOFFENSIVE
  1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
• DISCOMMODIOUS
  Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. Spenser. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n.
• DISCURSIST
  A discourser. L. Addison.
• COMMODIOUS
  Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS
• COMMODIOUSNESS
  State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.