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Definition of Noisome
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
2. Adjective. Offensively malodorous. "The kitchen smelled really funky"
Similar to: Ill-smelling, Malodorous, Malodourous, Stinky, Unpleasant-smelling
Derivative terms: Fetidness, Foulness, Noisomeness, Smell
Definition of Noisome
1. a. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Definition of Noisome
1. Adjective. Morally hurtful or noxious. ¹
2. Adjective. Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious. ¹
3. Adjective. Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable smell; sickening, nauseating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noisome
1. disgusting; harmful [adj]
Medical Definition of Noisome
1. 1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Noi"somely, Noi"someness. Synonym: Noxious, unwholesome, insalubrious, mischievous, destructive. Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc, and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell. Origin: For noysome, fr. Noy for annoy. See Annoy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noisome
Literary usage of Noisome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"noisome, ) At present offensive and moving dis- ... They that will be rich fall
into temptations and snares, and into many foolish and noisome ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"by the exercise of a noisome trade, which infects the air in his neighbourhood,
or by the neglect or unskilful manage- Indictment ment of his physician, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nuisances in Their Various Forms by Horace Gay Wood (1875)
"noisome stenches as a nuisance. 495. Hurtfulness or unwholesomeness not necessary.
496. A smell simply disagreeable creates a nuisance. 497. ..."
4. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"noisome smells. It is a well-settled doctrine, that any use of property, whether
in the exercise of a trade or business, or otherwise, which impregnates the ..."
5. The Law Relating to Oil and Gas: Including Oil and Gas Leases and Contracts by William Wheeler Thornton (1904)
"noisome smells. Unwholesome and noisome smells proceeding from the manufacture
of gas will render the manufactor liable in damages, if sufficient to produce ..."
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