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Definition of Noisome
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
2. Adjective. Offensively malodorous. "The kitchen smelled really funky"
Similar to: Ill-smelling, Malodorous, Malodourous, Stinky, Unpleasant-smelling
Derivative terms: Fetidness, Foulness, Noisomeness, Smell
Definition of Noisome
1. a. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Definition of Noisome
1. disgusting; harmful [adj]
Medical Definition of Noisome
1. 1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Noi"somely, Noi"someness. Synonym: Noxious, unwholesome, insalubrious, mischievous, destructive. 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. Origin: For noysome, fr. Noy for annoy. See Annoy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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