'Noisome' definitions:
Definition of 'noisome'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Noisome'
From: GCIDE
- Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.]
- 1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." --Ps. xci. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Noi"some*ly}, adv. -- {Noi"some*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.
- Usage: Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'noisome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- bad for,
- bad-smelling,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- barfy,
- base,
- beastly,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- blameworthy,
- brackish,
- brutal,
- cloying,
- contaminated,
- contemptible,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- crude,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disadvantageous,
- disgusting,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- graveolent,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- high,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hurtful,
- icky,
- ignoble,
- ill-smelling,
- infamous,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- lamentable,
- lethal,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- maggoty,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- malodorous,
- mawkish,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- mischievous,
- moldy,
- monstrous,
- morbific,
- musty,
- nasty,
- nauseant,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nefarious,
- nidorous,
- notorious,
- noxious,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- olid,
- ominous,
- outrageous,
- overripe,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- pestiferous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- prejudicial,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- rebarbative,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- regrettable,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- scatheful,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- septic,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sickly,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- sordid,
- spoiled,
- squalid,
- stenchy,
- stinking,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- tainted,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- toxic,
- unclean,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unsanitary,
- unwholesome,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- virulent,
- vomity,
- weevily,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- yucky