LOATHSOME

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; “a disgusting smell”; “distasteful language”; “a loathsome disease”; “the idea of eating meat is repellent to me”; “revolting food”; “a wicked stench”

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile

(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

loathsome (comparative more loathsome, superlative most loathsome)

Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.

Source: Wiktionary


Loath"some, a.

Definition: Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay.

– Loath"some*ly. adv.

– Loath"some*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.

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