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loathsome

/ˈləʊð.səm/US/ˈloʊð.səm/

loathsome adjective: highly offensive; abominable, sickening.

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...
    • 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...1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20

loathsome meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

loathsome in Tamil

அருவருப்பூட்டுகிற, வெறுக்கத்தக்க

loathsome in Urdu

مکروہ, قابل نفرت

loathsome in Bengali

loathsome, nasty
খবিশ khobiś

loathsome in Malayalam

detestable, hateful, abhorrent
വെറുപ്പുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, അറപ്പും വെറുപ്പുമുളവാക്കുന്ന, നിന്ദ്യം, കുത്സിതം, വെറുക്കത്തക്ക, പകയുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
loathsome in Kannada
ಅಸಹ್ಯಕರ, ಓಕರಿಕೆ ಬರಿಸುವ, ಹೇಸಿಗೆಯ
loathsome in Arabic
سافل

Examples of loathsome in a sentence

  • He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:
  • He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:

Forms of loathsome

comparativemore loathsome
superlativemost loathsome
alternative misspellingloathesome
alternative form (obsolete)lothsome

Origin of loathsome

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”).

Words formed from loathsome

Questions about loathsome

What does loathsome mean?
Loathsome means highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
What is loathsome in Tamil?
Loathsome in Tamil is அருவருப்பூட்டுகிற, வெறுக்கத்தக்க. See Loathsome meaning in Tamil.
How do you use loathsome in a sentence?
He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.
What part of speech is loathsome?
Loathsome is an adjective.
How do you pronounce loathsome?
Loathsome is pronounced /ˈləʊð.səm/ (UK).

Words near loathsome in the dictionary

  1. loathliest
  2. loathliness
  3. loathly
  4. loathness
  5. loaths
  6. loathsome
  7. loathsomely
  8. loathsomeness
  9. loathsomenesses
  10. loathy
  11. Loatuko

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loathsome (page history and authors); loathsome (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loathsome (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); খবিশ (Bengali) (page history and authors); loathsome (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); loathsome (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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