adj
Meaning 1
Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
loathsome
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈləʊð.səm/
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UK: /ˈləʊθ.səm/
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US: /ˈloʊð.səm/
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US: /ˈloʊθ.səm/
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CMU ARPABET: L OW1 DH S AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a disgusting smell
- distasteful language
- a loathsome disease
- the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
- revolting food
- a wicked stench
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
causing or able to cause nausea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a nauseating smell
- nauseous offal
- a sickening stench
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, offensive, sickening, vile
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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”).
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سافل — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Bulgarian: противен (protiven) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Bulgarian: отвратителен (otvratitelen) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Chinese Mandarin: 憎惡 /憎恶 (zēngwù, zēng'è) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Esperanto: abomeninda — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Esperanto: abomena — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Esperanto: naŭza — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Finnish: inhottava — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- French: odieux — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- French: dégoûtant — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Galician: noxento — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: ekelhaft — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: abscheulich — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: scheußlich — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: widerlich — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: widerwärtig — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: verabscheuenswürdig — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: verhasst — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: verrucht — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- German: abgrundhässlich — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Greek: απαίσιος (apaísios) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Greek: επάρατος (epáratos) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Ancient Greek: βδελυρός (bdelurós) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Ancient Greek: βδελυκτός (bdeluktós) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Greek: βδελυχρός (bdelukhrós) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Italian: laido — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Italian: odioso — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Italian: detestabile — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Japanese: 厭わしい (itowashii) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Latin: taeter — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Macedonian: о́двратен (ódvraten) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Macedonian: о́мразен (ómrazen) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Macedonian: гна́сен (gnásen) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Māori: wetiweti — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Norman: r'pugnant — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: nojento — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: repugnante — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: abominável — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: asqueroso — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: desprezível — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Portuguese: detestável — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Romanian: detestabil — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Romanian: odios — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Romanian: dezgustător — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Russian: отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Russian: омерзи́тельный (omerzítelʹnyj) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Russian: отта́лкивающий (ottálkivajuščij) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Russian: га́дкий (gádkij) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Russian: проти́вный (protívnyj) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: aborrecible — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: detestable — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: odioso — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: abominable — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: repugnante — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: nefando — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: execrable — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Spanish: asqueroso — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Ukrainian: оги́дний (ohýdnyj) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening
- Ukrainian: гидки́й (hydkýj) — highly offensive; abominable, sickening