Definitions for: Noisome


[adj] offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell"
[adj] causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"



Webster (1913) Definition: Noi"some, a. [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.

Usage: 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.

Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, loathsome, malodorous, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, putrid, sickening, smelly, stinking, unwholesome, vile

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