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Definition: Loathsome |
LoathsomeAdjective1. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loathsome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: LoathsomeSynonyms: disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), distasteful (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), nauseating (adj), nauseous (adj), noisome (adj), offensive (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), sickening (adj), vile (adj), wicked (adj), yucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful). |
Pain | Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous. |
Unsavoriness | Offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening. Verb: nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Loathsome |
| English words defined with "loathsome": disgustful, disgusting, distasteful ♦ foul ♦ Laidly, loathly, Loathy ♦ repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting ♦ Ugsome ♦ wicked, Wlatsome ♦ yucky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "loathsome": Cagots ♦ Ifurin ♦ Lydford Law ♦ Revolting. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "loathsome": Loathy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Walter, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) One day of Christmas is loathsome enough (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) Well, sir, now that we are rid of that loathsome curmudgeon, you may effect my emancipation (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: Josef Anderson; Chris Black) Do you think this job, this loathsome Wall, is all I've done for Communism (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Shakespeare | Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world than any mortal drug. |
Thomas Jefferson | . . . this loathsome combination of Church and State. |
William Blake | Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Loathsome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Loathsome" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.44% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
loathsome | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "loathsome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i urryer (confounded, cursed, foul, hateful, heinous, horrible, invidious, loathful), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), مقرف (detestable, disgusting, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, repulsive, sickening), تعافه النفس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гнусен (abhorrent, heinous, obscene, ugly, vile), гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked). (various references) | |
Czech | odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), hnusný (abhorrent, beastly, detestable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, feculent, foul, horrible, revolting, stinking, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Farsi | نفرت انگیز (Detestable, Execrable, Gruesome, Horrid, Invidious, Obnoxious, Odious), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), دافع (Eductor, Repellent, Repulsive), بی رغبت کننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | inhottava (abominable, detestable, disgusting, hideous, nasty), inhottaa (abominable, detestable, disgusting, hideous), ilkeä (bad, evil, malicious, mischievous, nasty, naughty, vicious, wicked), iljettävä (disgusting, nauseous, repulsive, sickening). (various references) | |
French | répugnant (loath), détestable (loath), éc"urant (loath). (various references) | |
German | widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, foul, lousy, lurid, nasty, nauseating, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisome, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky), ekelhaft (abominable, disgusting, foul, fulsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, sickening, ugly, vile). (various references) | |
Greek | απεχθήσ (abhorrent, abject, abominable, loathful, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, revolting), απεχθής (abhorred, abhorrent, abominable, hideous), αηδιαστικόσ (disgusting, distasteful, loathful, nasty, nauseous, queasy, repulsive, sicking), αηδήσ (disgusting, fulsome, loathful, loathly, mawkish, nauseous, shocking, sickening). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוקצ" מחמת מאוס (odious, untouchable), משוקץ (abhorred, abominable, detestable, repulsive), מאוס (abominable, abomination, anathema, atrocious, despicable, disgusting, foul, fulsome, mangy, refuse, repulsive, repulsiveness), 'עלי (abominale, detestable, disgusting, mawkish), תעב (abhorred, abominable, detestable, foul, gruesome, hateful, obnoxious, odious, vile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utálatos (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, detestable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, execrable, ghastly, groaty, grotty, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrible, loathful, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, poisonous, rank), undorító (abominable, carrion, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, fulsome, groaty, grotty, grovelling, hideous, loathful, mucky, nauseating, nauseous, pooping, queasy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, smarmy, ugly), gyűlöletes (abominable, hateable, hateful, odious, rank). (various references) | |
Indonesian | muak (disgust, fed up), jijik (abhorrent, antipathetic, contempt, detestable, detesting, loathing, repugnant), cengis (had odor, nauseating), benci (abhor, abhorrence, animosity, detest, dislike, hate, odious). (various references) | |
Italian | laido (distasteful, lousy, rancid, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 苦苦しい (disgusting, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), 苦々しい (disgusting, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), 憎憎しい (detestable, hateful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にがにがしい (disgusting, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), にくにくしい (detestable, hateful). (various references) | |
Manx | tahagh (disgusting), graynoil (abhorrent, horrible, horrid, repellent, repulsive), feohdoil (abhorrent, disgusting, hateful, horrid, invidious), breinn (blue, blue as film, foetid, foul, malodorus, nasty, offensive, pestilential, putrid, rancid, rotten, smelly). (various references) | |
Norwegian | motbydelig (disgusting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oathsomelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, disgusting, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathful, nauseous, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), odioso (abject, accursed, damnable, hateful, heinous, invidious, loathful, nasty, odious, rancorous), nojento (disgusting, loathful, lousy, nasty, unsavory, unsavoury), detestável (accursed, damned, detestable, invidious, loathful, nasty, odious, rancid), asqueroso (carrion, disgusting, loathful, revolting). (various references) | |
Romanian | scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous, vile), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), detestabil (accursed, detestable, execrable, foul, hateful, odious, odiously). (various references) | |
Russian | вызывающий отвращение (abhorrent, loathful), отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, horrid, loathful, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references) | |
Scottish | breun (putrid, stinking). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), gnusan (abominable, damnable, detestable, heinous, hideous, loathful, nasty, noisome, sickening), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | aborrecible (abhorrent, detestable, hateful, invidious, loathful). (various references) | |
Swedish | avskyvärd (abhorrent, abominable, astrocious, beastly, detestable, execrable, heinous, loathful, obnoxious, obscene, odious, stinking, unspeakable). (various references) | |
Thai | น่ารังเกียจ (clingin, foul, hateable, icky-poo, lousy, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, putrid). (various references) | |
Turkish | tiksindirici (abominable, cloying, detestable, disgusting, fulsome, mawkish, odious, putrid, qualmish, sickening, squirmy), nefret uyandıran (abhorrent, detestable, disgusting, hatable, hateable, hateful), müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відразливий (abhorrent, forbidding, horrid, nauseous, odious), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m cho người ta không ưa (loathly), ghê tởm (abhorrent, abominable, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, disgustedly, disgustful, grisly, loathly, odious, rebarbative, repulsive), đáng ghét (accursed, accurst, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, loathly, obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffiaidd (abominable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | foedam, foede, foedum, foedus, taeter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Logon adikon misei dikaioV asebhV de aiscunetai kai ouc exei parrhsian |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Verbum mendax iustus detestabitur impius confundit et confundetur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A lesing woord the riytwis man shal wlaten; the vnpitous man forsothe shendeth, and shal be shent. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is lothsome, and cometh to shame. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka tawo nga matarung magadumot sa pagpamakak; Apan ang usa ka dautang tawo makaluod, ug modangat sa kaulawon. |
| Chinese | 義 人 恨 惡 謊 言 ． 惡 人 有 臭 名 、 " 致 慚 愧 。 |
| Croatian | Pravednik mrzi na lažljivu rijeè, a opaki goji mržnju i sramotu. |
| Danish | Den retfærdige hader Løgnetale, den gudløse spreder Skam og Skændsel. |
| Dutch | De rechtvaardige haat leugentaal; maar de goddeloze maakt zich stinkende, en doet zich schaamte aan. |
| Finnish | Vanhurskas vihaa valhepuhetta, mutta jumalattoman meno on iljettävä ja häpeällinen. |
| French | Le juste hait les paroles mensongères; Le méchant se rend odieux et se couvre de honte. |
| German | Der Gerechte ist der Lüge feind; aber der Gottlose schändet und schmäht sich selbst. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun k'ap mache dwat pa vle wè moun k'ap bay manti. Men, sa mechan yo ap fè a se yon wont, se yon dezonè pou tèt yo. |
| Hungarian | A hamis dolgot gyûlöli az igaz; az istentelen pedig gyûlölségessé tesz és megszégyenít. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jujur benci akan dusta, tingkah laku orang jahat memalukan dan tercela. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang yang benar itu benci akan perkataan dusta, tetapi orang jahat membusukkan dan mempermalukan dirinya. |
| Italian | Il giusto odia la parola falsa, l'empio calunnia e disonora. |
| Korean | 의 인 은 거 " 말 을 미 워 하 나 악 인 은 행 위 가 흉 악 하 여 부 끄 러 운 데 이 르 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ E kino ana te tangata tika ki te korero teka: he mea whakarihariha ia te tangata kino, a whakama noa iho. |
| Norwegian | Den rettferdige hater løgnaktige ord, men den ugudelige gjør det som ondt og skammelig er. |
| Portuguese | O justo odeia a palavra mentirosa, mas o ímpio se faz odioso e se cobre de vergonha. |
| Rumanian | Cel neprihqnit urqwte cuvintele mincinoase, dar cel rqu se face urkt wi se acoperq de ruwine. - |
| Spanish | El justo aborrece la palabra de mentira, pero el impío se hace odioso y trae deshonra. |
| Swedish | Den rättfärdige skyr lögnaktigt tal, men den ogudaktige är förhatlig och skändlig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loathsome": loathsomely, loathsomeness, loathsomenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Loathsome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: loathesome, loathsomed, loathsomest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "loathsome" (pronounced lō"thsum or lō"thsum) |
| 3 | -s u m | adventuresome, awesome, Balsam, blossom, bothersome, meddlesome, nettlesome, opossum, possum, quarrelsome, ransom, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, cumbersome, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, fulsome, gruesome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, lonesome, Maxim, threesome, tiresome, transom, troublesome, twosome, venturesome, wearisome, wholesome, winsome, worrisome. |
| 3 | -s u m | adventuresome, awesome, Balsam, blossom, bothersome, meddlesome, nettlesome, opossum, possum, quarrelsome, ransom, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, cumbersome, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, fulsome, gruesome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, lonesome, Maxim, threesome, tiresome, transom, troublesome, twosome, venturesome, wearisome, wholesome, winsome, worrisome. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lothsome. | |
-2 letters: hamlets, loathes, maltose, moolahs, osteoma. | |
-3 letters: almehs, almost, amoles, halest, haloes, hamlet, haoles, haslet, helots, hostel, hotels, lamest, lathes, loathe, lotahs, mahoes, metals, mohels, molest, moolah, moolas, motels, osmole, osteal, samlet, shalom, shelta, sholom, smalto, smooth, solate, soothe, stomal, tholes, tholos. | |
-4 letters: almeh, almes, aloes, altho, altos, amole, atoms, ethos, haems, haets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: schoolmate. | |
+2 letters: homologates, loathsomely, schoolmates. | |
+3 letters: exophthalmos, hematologies, hematologist, mesothelioma, schoolmaster. | |
+4 letters: chromatolyses, commonwealths, endotheliomas, hematologists, homosexuality, loathsomeness, lymphomatoses, mesotheliomas, metallophones, schoolmasters. | |
+5 letters: antihomosexual, exophthalmoses, hemimetabolous, histoplasmoses, holometabolism, holometabolous, mesotheliomata, metapsychology, monotheistical, ophthalmoscope, rheumatologies, rheumatologist, schoolmasterly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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