noisome

[ noi-suhm ]

adjective

1. offensive or disgusting, as an odor.

   Synonyms: mephitic, stinking, rotten, putrid, fetid

2. harmful or injurious to health; noxious.

noisome

/ ˈnɔɪsəm /

adjective

1. (esp of smells) offensive
2. harmful or noxious

Derived Forms

• ˈnoisomely, adverb
• ˈnoisomeness, noun

Other Words From

• noisome·ly adverb
• noisome·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of noisome¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English noy (aphetic variant of annoy ) + -some ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of noisome¹

C14: from obsolete noy, variant of annoy + -some ¹

Example Sentences

This only resurrected the noisome history of Epstein and the Media Lab, which MIT surely hoped would be dead and buried after it issued an independent report on the matter in January 2020.

From Los Angeles Times

From a commercial standpoint, the companies have been reluctant to get in the way of the torrent, unless it’s so noisome that it crosses an inescapable line.

From Los Angeles Times

Because he personally led this fetid, noisome, pawing frat house, that’s why.

From Washington Post

Yet another in our series of noisome parasites that we offer as second prizes.

From Washington Post

McLean demanded a more subtle and sanitary L.A. trash management than the noisy and noisome practice of trash cans collected and then dropped with a clang on public sidewalks where, as The Times wrote appetizingly, they lay “with reminiscences of the day before yesterday’s dinner clinging to the sides, there to fester and fry in the fierce rays of the sun.”

From Los Angeles Times