Monday, December 15, 2008

: word for today ? noisome : too good to pass up :

HyperDictionary Definition: noisome

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

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

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