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LOATHSOME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Example:
a wicked stench
Synonyms:
disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
loathsomeness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing or able to cause nausea
Example:
a sickening stench
Synonyms:
loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; noisome; offensive; queasy; sickening; vile
Classified under:
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
loathsomeness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
Context examples:
Positively, he was the most disgusting and loathsome person I have ever met.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You have done something to mitigate my feelings for the loathsome profession to which you unhappily belong.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is loathsome to the life that is in me, the very essence of which is movement, the power of movement, and the consciousness of the power of movement.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I knew well therefore what would be my father’s feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was a loathsome adventure, and one of which I hate to think.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of engaging myself in my loathsome task in my father’s house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
