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Synonyms for loathsome
ˈloʊð səm, ˈloʊθ-loath·some

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. loathsome

    Synonyms:
    acrid, bitter, nauseous, repulsive, unpalatable, unsavory

    Antonyms:
    dainty, delicious, delightful, exquisite, luscious, savory

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective

    causing or able to cause nausea

    "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

    Synonyms:
    noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, unsavory, ugly, foul, repellent, dysphemistic, slimy, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, anxious, sick, ill-scented, foetid, vile, despicable, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, sickening, smelly, repelling, worthless, unquiet, foul-smelling, sickish, nauseated, nervous, yucky, wicked, uneasy, skanky, funky, wretched, loathly, violative, unworthy, queasy, repellant

    Antonyms:
    inoffensive, wholesome

  2. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, foul, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellant

    Antonyms:
    inoffensive, wholesome

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. loathsomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    disgusting, sickening, nauseous, nauseating, repulsive, offensive, revolting, palling

  2. loathsomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    hateful, detestable, odious, shocking, abominable; abhorrent, execrable

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How to use loathsome in a sentence?

  1. John Sifton:

    It's easy to say, ‘Oh, we should just cut off the Taliban, cut off this country from the world,’ but we're fast approaching a point where we need to recognize that despite being a loathsome, rights-abusing regime, we're going to have to do business with these folks if we want to help the people we care about and help the Afghans who have gotten stuck behind.

  2. Margaret Mead:

    Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  3. John Sifton:

    The Senate report makes it easier for loathsome foreign regimes to criticize the United States' human rights record, which drives home another key reason why the CIA's abuses need to be thoroughly renounced.

  4. Brian Levin:

    [Antifa’s] list of what is fascist has grown far beyond the loathsome, Swastika-carrying white nationalists, to controversial conservatives, speakers, the police, journalists and random people who get in their way.

  5. Bertolt Brecht:

    Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.


Translations for loathsome

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  • كريهArabic
  • abscheulich, ekelhaftGerman
  • απαίσιος, επάρατοςGreek
  • inhottavaFinnish
  • détestable, odieux, dégoûtantFrench
  • wetiwetiMāori
  • dezgustător, detestabil, odiosRomanian
  • гадкий, отталкивающий, омерзительный, отвратительный, противныйRussian

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