noisome

  • 21noisome — adjective /ˈnɔɪ.səm/ a) Morally hurtful or noxious. b) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious …

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  • 22noisome — Synonyms and related words: abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad for, bad smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, cloying, contaminated, contemptible …

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  • 23noisome — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. destructive, harmful, baneful, evil; fetid, malodorous, rank, foul[ smelling]; disgusting, loathsome. See badness, malodorousness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Harmful] Syn. baneful, pernicious,… …

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  • 24noisome — noi|some [ nɔısəm ] adjective LITERARY extremely unpleasant, especially because of being very dirty or having a bad smell …

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  • 25noisome —  has nothing to do with noise or noisiness. It is related to annoy and means offensive or objectionable and is most often used to describe unpleasant smells …

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  • 26noisome —    has nothing to do with noise or noisiness. It is related to annoy and means offensive or objectionable, and is most often used to describe unpleasant smells …

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  • 27noisome — noi·some || nɔɪsÉ™m adj. obnoxious; stinky; offensive; unhealthy …

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  • 28noisome — [ nɔɪs(ə)m] adjective literary having an extremely offensive smell. ↘disagreeable; unpleasant. Derivatives noisomeness noun Origin ME: from obs. noy (shortened form of annoy) + some1 …

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  • 29noisome — a. 1. Noxious, injurious, hurtful, unwholesome, insalubrious, unhealthy, pernicious, mischievous, detrimental, destructive, deleterious, baneful, poisonous, pestilential. 2. Offensive, fetid, disgusting …

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  • 30noisome — adjective See odious …

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