Definition of Loathful

1. a. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.

Definition of Loathful

1. Adjective. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. ¹

2. Adjective. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loathful

1. repulsive [adj] - See also: repulsive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathful

loanword
loanwords
loasa
loasa family
loast
loath
loath(p)
loathable
loathe
loathed
loather
loathers
loathes
loathest
loatheth
loathful (current term)
loathiest
loathing
loathingly
loathings
loathlier
loathliest
loathliness
loathly
loathness
loathnesses
loathsome
loathsomely
loathsomeness
loathsomenesses

Literary usage of Loathful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Hating, abhorring: That the complaints thereof could not be told; Which when lie did with loathful eyes behold, He would no more endure, but came his way. ..."

2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1829)
"... up in their room brighter visionary scenes of lasting unalloyed joys in another state, shared and enhanced by the society of a being loathful in life, ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"... loathful life, now loosed from sinful bands, Upon his shoulders carried him."—Spenser. Faerie Queen. ..."

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