loathsome

English

Etymology

From Middle English lothsum, as if loath +‎ -some.

Adjective

loathsome (comparative more loathsome, superlative most loathsome)

1. highly offensive; sickening, abominable

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.

Translations

highly offensive; sickening, abominable

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憎惡 (cmn), 憎恶 (cmn) (zēngwù, zēng'è)

• Finnish: inhottava (fi)
• French: odieux (fr)
• German: ekelhaft (de), abscheulich (de)

• Greek: απαίσιος (el) (apaísios) m, επάρατος (el) (epáratos) m
• Jèrriais: r'pugnant
• Maori: wetiweti (mi)
• Romanian: detestabil (ro), odios (ro), dezgustător (ro)
• Russian: отвратительный (ru) (otvratítel'nyj), омерзительный (ru) (omerzítel'nyj), отталкивающий (ru) (ottálkivajuščij), гадкий (ru) (gádkij), противный (ru) (protívnyj)

External links

• loathsome in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• loathsome in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• loathsome at OneLook Dictionary Search