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loathesome

loathesome is the misspelling of loathsome.

Meaning of loathsome

Adjective

loathsome (comparative more loathsome, superlative most loathsome)

  1. Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
    • Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas...

Questions about loathesome

What is loathesome the misspelling of?
Loathesome is the misspelling of loathsome.

Words near loathesome in the dictionary

  1. loathedness
  2. loathedst
  3. loather
  4. loathers
  5. loathes
  6. loathesome
  7. loathest
  8. loatheth
  9. loathful
  10. loathfully
  11. loathfulness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loathesome (page history and authors); loathsome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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