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Loathsome

//ˈloʊð.səm// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.

    "Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe."

Adjective
  1. 1
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust wordnet
  2. 2
    causing or able to cause nausea wordnet

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”).

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