noisome
Adjective Satellite
- causing or able to cause nausea
- offensively malodorous
Adj
- Morally hurtful or noxious.
- Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
- Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.
Adjective
- Having an offensive smell; harmful or noxious.
Examples
- His NOISOME play, blocking my power square, was truly foul strategy.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (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”)).
Synonyms
fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, queasy, sickening, smelly, stinking, vile, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, prejudicial, scathand, scathel, sullen, venom
Scrabble Score: 9
noisome: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnoisome: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
noisome: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary