Noisome Definition

noisəm
adjective
Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul.
A noisome odor.
American Heritage
Injurious to health; harmful.
Webster's New World
Having a bad odor; foul-smelling.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Noisome

  • From Middle English noy (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French: ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare (to make hateful), from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (hate).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English noiesom noie harm (short for anoi annoyance) (from Old French) (from anoier to annoy annoy) -som adj. suff. –some1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Noisome Sentence Examples

  • The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.

  • The mists, due to the great heat and excessive evaporation, and the noxious miasmata, especially of the southern region, were exaggerated into the noisome vapours that the "black and stinking" waters ever exhaled.

  • How did the anatomists persuade their peers to condone, rather than condemn, the noisome business of dissection?

  • Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

  • Until recently, computer games helped to soothe those old pains, rather like Clearasil on a particularly noisome spot.

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