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lothsome

lothsome is the obsolete spelling 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...

Forms of lothsome

comparativemore lothsome
superlativemost lothsome

Questions about lothsome

What is lothsome the obsolete spelling of?
Lothsome is the obsolete spelling of loathsome.

Words near lothsome in the dictionary

  1. Lothringian
  2. Lothringians
  3. Lothrop
  4. Lothrops
  5. loths
  6. lothsome
  7. lothsomnes
  8. loti
  9. lotic
  10. lotid
  11. lotids

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