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loathsome
English
Alternative forms
- loathesome
Etymology
From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *l?þsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþsam, equivalent to loath +? -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??ð.s?m/, /?l???.s?m/
Adjective
loathsome (comparative more loathsome, superlative most loathsome)
- Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.
Derived terms
- loathsomely
- loathsomeness
- unloathsome
Translations
Further reading
- loathsome in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- loathsome in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- loathsome at OneLook Dictionary Search
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putrid
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putre? (“I am rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pju?.t??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?pju.t??d/
Adjective
putrid (comparative more putrid, superlative most putrid)
- Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]
- 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie
- 2020 December, Dave Barry, "Year in review":
- 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
- Synonym: malodorous
- Vile, disgusting.
- Morally corrupt
- Totally objectionable
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- rotten
- foul
- odor
References
- “p??trid, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Anagrams
- turpid
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- putridu, prutid, prudit
Etymology
From Latin putridus. Compare Romanian putred.
Adjective
putrid m (feminine singular putridã, masculine plural putridz, feminine plural putridi or putride)
- rotten, putrid, decayed, spoiled
Derived terms
- putridzãscu
- putridzãnji
See also
- ciuruc
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French putride, from Latin putridus. Doublet of the inherited putred.
Adjective
putrid m or n (feminine singular putrid?, masculine plural putrizi, feminine and neuter plural putride)
- (literary, uncommon) putrid
Declension
Synonyms
- putred
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