loathsome

English

Etymology

From Middle English lothsum, equivalent to 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.

Derived terms

• loathsomely
• loathsomeness
• unloathsome

Translations

highly offensive; sickening, abominable

• Arabic: سافل‎
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: abomeninda, abomena (eo)
• Finnish: inhottava (fi)
• French: odieux (fr), dégoûtant (fr)
• Galician: noxento m
• German: ekelhaft (de), abscheulich (de)

• Greek: απαίσιος (el) m (apaísios), επάρατος (el) m (epáratos)

  Ancient: βδελυρός (bdelurós), βδελυκτός (bdeluktós)

• Italian: laido (it)
• Latin: taeter
• Maori: wetiweti
• Norman: r'pugnant
• Romanian: detestabil (ro), odios (ro), dezgustător (ro)
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), омерзи́тельный (ru) (omerzítelʹnyj), отта́лкивающий (ru) (ottálkivajuščij), га́дкий (ru) (gádkij), проти́вный (ru) (protívnyj)

Further reading

• 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