2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noisome \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
noisome
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating},
{nauseous}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {sickening}, {vile}]
2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid},
{foul}, {foul-smelling}, {funky}, {smelly}, {putrid}, {stinking}]
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