loathsome

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   causing or able to cause nausea

Common collocations

• loathsome disease Adjective + noun

From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *lāþsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, equivalent to loath + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”).

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