English Explanatory Dictionary

noisome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Morally hurtful or noxious.
  2. Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
  3. Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɔɪ.səm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-noisome.wav

Word forms

noisome more noisome most noisome noysome

Etymology

From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare, from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (“hate”)).

Synonyms

harmful damaging deleterious detrimental hurtful inimical injurious mischievous nocent nocuous noxious noisome prejudicial scathand scathel sullen venom foul fetid sickening nauseating

Derived words

noisomely noisomeness
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