loathsome Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite causing or able to cause nausea
    queasy; vile; nauseous; offensive; sickening; noisome; nauseating.
    • a nauseating smell
    • nauseous offal
    • a sickening stench
  2. adjective satellite highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    distasteful; skanky; disgusting; loathly; repellant; repellent; foul; disgustful; repelling; yucky; revolting; wicked.
    • a disgusting smell
    • distasteful language
    • a loathsome disease
    • the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
    • revolting food
    • a wicked stench

WordNet

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

Webster 1913