fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented
(adjective) offensively malodorous; “a foul odor”; “the kitchen smelled really funky”
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
noisome (comparative more noisome, superlative most noisome)
(literary) Morally hurtful or noxious.
(literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
Synonym: Thesaurus:harmful
(literary) Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell
Synonyms: foul, fetid, sickening, nauseating
• Moonies, ionomes, moonies, niosome
Source: Wiktionary
Noi"some, a. Etym: [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.
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak.
– Noi"some*ly, adv.
– Noi"some*ness, n.
Syn.
– Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.
– 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
