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Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.

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  1. a. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
  2. adj. causing or able to cause nausea
  3. adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  4. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
  5. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay.-- Loath"some*ly. adv.-- Loath"some*ness, n.
  6. j:100 s causing or able to cause nausea s highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust