NOISOME

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

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Etymology

Adjective

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

Anagrams

• Moonies, ionomes, moonies, niosome

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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