"loathsome" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈləʊð.səm/ [UK], /ˈləʊθ.səm/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-loathsome.wav Forms: more loathsome [comparative], most loathsome [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *lāþsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, equivalent to loath + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|lothsum}} Middle English lothsum, {{inh|en|ang|*lāþsum}} Old English *lāþsum, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*laiþasam}} Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, {{suf|en|loath|some|pos=adjective}} loath + -some, {{cog|gml|lêtsam|t=arduous}} Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), {{cog|de|leidsam|t=sad, sorry}} German leidsam (“sad, sorry”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} loathsome (comparative more loathsome, superlative most loathsome)
  1. Highly offensive; abominable, sickening. Synonyms: loathesome, lothsome [obsolete] Derived forms: loathsomely, loathsomeness, unloathsome Translations (highly offensive; abominable, sickening): βδελυρός (bdelurós) (Ancient Greek), βδελυκτός (bdeluktós) (Ancient Greek), سافل (Arabic), противен (protiven) (Bulgarian), отвратителен (otvratitelen) (Bulgarian), 憎惡 (Chinese Mandarin), 憎恶 (zēngwù, zēng'è) (Chinese Mandarin), abomeninda (Esperanto), abomena (Esperanto), inhottava (Finnish), odieux (French), dégoûtant (French), noxento [masculine] (Galician), ekelhaft (German), abscheulich (German), scheußlich (German), widerlich (German), widerwärtig (German), verabscheuenswürdig (German), verhasst (German), verrucht (German), abgrundhässlich (German), απαίσιος (apaísios) [masculine] (Greek), επάρατος (epáratos) [masculine] (Greek), βδελυχρός (bdelukhrós) [Doric] (Greek), laido (Italian), taeter (Latin), о́двратен (ódvraten) (Macedonian), о́мразен (ómrazen) (Macedonian), гна́сен (gnásen) (Macedonian), wetiweti (Maori), r'pugnant (Norman), nojento (Portuguese), repugnante (Portuguese), abominável (Portuguese), asqueroso (Portuguese), desprezível (Portuguese), detestável (Portuguese), detestabil (Romanian), odios (Romanian), dezgustător (Romanian), отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) (Russian), омерзи́тельный (omerzítelʹnyj) (Russian), отта́лкивающий (ottálkivajuščij) (Russian), га́дкий (gádkij) (Russian), проти́вный (protívnyj) (Russian), aborrecible (Spanish), detestable (Spanish), odioso (Spanish), abominable (Spanish), repugnante (Spanish), nefando (Spanish), execrable (Spanish), asqueroso (Spanish), оги́дний (ohýdnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), гидки́й (hydkýj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:",
          "text": "That grave but yesterday received one who was to have been his bride—his betrothed from childhood for whose sake he had been to far lands and gathered much wealth, but who had pined in his absence and died. He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.",
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "سافل"
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          "word": "противен"
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "憎惡"
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "inhottava"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "odieux"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "dégoûtant"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "noxento"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "ekelhaft"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "widerlich"
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          "roman": "apaísios",
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          "word": "απαίσιος"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "laido"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "taeter"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ódvraten",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "о́двратен"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ómrazen",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "о́мразен"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "gnásen",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "гна́сен"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "wetiweti"
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          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "r'pugnant"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "nojento"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "repugnante"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "abominável"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "asqueroso"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "desprezível"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "detestável"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "detestabil"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "odios"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "dezgustător"
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          "roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
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          "word": "отврати́тельный"
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          "word": "га́дкий"
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          "roman": "protívnyj",
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          "word": "проти́вный"
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "aborrecible"
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          "word": "detestable"
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
          "word": "odioso"
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          "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
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          "word": "nefando"
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norman translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
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        {
          "ref": "1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:",
          "text": "That grave but yesterday received one who was to have been his bride—his betrothed from childhood for whose sake he had been to far lands and gathered much wealth, but who had pined in his absence and died. He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.",
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        {
          "ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:",
          "text": "Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Highly offensive; abominable, sickening."
      ],
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          "Highly",
          "highly"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ],
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        ],
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          "sickening",
          "sickening"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/ˈləʊθ.səm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
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    {
      "word": "loathesome"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "lothsome"
    }
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "سافل"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "protiven",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "противен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otvratitelen",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "отвратителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "憎惡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zēngwù, zēng'è",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "憎恶"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abomeninda"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abomena"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "inhottava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "odieux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "dégoûtant"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "noxento"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "ekelhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abscheulich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "scheußlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "widerlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "widerwärtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "verabscheuenswürdig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "verhasst"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "verrucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abgrundhässlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apaísios",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "απαίσιος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epáratos",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "επάρατος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "bdelurós",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "βδελυρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "bdeluktós",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "βδελυκτός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "bdelukhrós",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "Doric"
      ],
      "word": "βδελυχρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "laido"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "taeter"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ódvraten",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "о́двратен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ómrazen",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "о́мразен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gnásen",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "гна́сен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "wetiweti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "r'pugnant"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "nojento"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "repugnante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abominável"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "asqueroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "desprezível"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "detestável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "detestabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "odios"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "dezgustător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "отврати́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "omerzítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "омерзи́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ottálkivajuščij",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "отта́лкивающий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gádkij",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "га́дкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "protívnyj",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "проти́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "aborrecible"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "detestable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "odioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "abominable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "repugnante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "nefando"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "execrable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "word": "asqueroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ohýdnyj",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оги́дний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hydkýj",
      "sense": "highly offensive; abominable, sickening",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гидки́й"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loathsome"
}

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