Noisome
['nɒɪs(ə)m] or ['nɔɪsəm]
Definition
(a.) Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
(a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Noxious, injurious, hurtful, unwholesome, insalubrious, unhealthy, pernicious, mischievous, detrimental, destructive, deleterious, baneful, poisonous, pestilential.[2]. Offensive, fetid, disgusting.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hurtful, harmful, nocuous, pestilential
ANT:Wholesome, salutary, salubrious, beneficial
Checker: Sondra
Definition
adj. injurious to health: disgusting to sight or smell.—adv. Noi′somely.—n. Noi′someness.
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Examples
- His blind and aged father, and his gentle sister, lay in a noisome dungeon, while he enjoyed the free air, and the society of her whom he loved. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Extraordinary how soon the noisome flavour of imprisoned sleep, becomes manifest in all such places that are ill cared for! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He who should have been our shield against all harm, hath kept us shut within the noisome caverns of his donjon-keep for lo these thirty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The consequence of the earthquake was a general sickness, from the noisome vapours belched forth, which swept away above three thousand persons. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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