单词 | loathsome |
释义 | loathsomeadj. 1. Exciting disgust or loathing. (Now always with emotional implication.) a. In physical sense: Exciting nausea; offensive to the senses; noisome, sickening. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > causing nausea loathsome1398 squeamisha1571 nauseous1618 nauseating1645 sickish1727 qualmish1827 stomach-churning1899 gut-wrenching1972 yuck-making1972 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xvi. 121 Yf the teeth were bare they were loathsom and nat fayr. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 23229 Fell dragons and tadis bath..Ful laithsum [Vesp. wlatsum] on to here and se..þar sal be. c1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 172 Man is but lothesum eorthe and claye. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Oo.ii Vnwittingly otherwhile eate some lothesome and abhorring meat. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 72 A most instant tetter barckt about Most Lazerlike with vile and lothsome crust All my smooth body. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 480 Thou must not..Lie in this miserable loathsom plight Neglected. View more context for this quotation 1700 H. Maundrell Let. in Journey to Jerusalem (1703) sig. T3 A Gouty scrofulous substance, very loathsom to look upon. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 383 The stench of the hold [was] loathsome, beyond all conception. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii.xxvii. 66 She died shortly of a loathsome disease. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 432 A loathsome volatile salt, extracted from human skulls, was forced into his mouth. b. In a moral sense: Hateful, distasteful, odious, repulsive, shocking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] loatha700 eileOE andsetec1000 wlatfulc1230 aloathedc1275 wlatsomea1300 unhonest13.. wlata1325 hideousc1330 abominable1340 hatefula1382 hatesomea1382 abominablec1384 odiousa1387 fulsomec1390 accursedc1400 hatousc1400 rankc1400 hateablec1425 odiblec1425 ugsomec1425 wretchedc1430 loathsomec1440 loathfula1450 noisomea1450 abhominal1477 detestable1477 loathy1481 loathing?a1513 oppugnanta1513 irksome1513 hateworthy1548 abhorful1565 ugged1570 detestine1575 ulcerous1577 opposite1578 scandalous1592 offensive1594 obscene1597 ulcered1602 dirtya1616 abhorrent1628 toady1628 envious1630 repugnant1633 nauseating1645 nauseous1646 obnoxious1646 detestful1654 reluctant1663 horrid1666 abnoxious1682 devilish1692 invidious1710 repellent1776 repellant1780 sickening1789 toadish1822 carrion1826 ugging1839 cussed1853 repugnant1879 jerky1944 vomitous1952 barfy1957 the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] > abhorred or detestable loathlyc900 loathsomec1440 abhorrablea1475 homynable1489 huggeda1533 ill-favoured1562 abhorrible1602 c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. lxiii Wyth thy pryde thou defowlest all thy good dedes and makyth hem loothsom in the syghte of thy lorde. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 218 How lusting lufe, that laithsum sin, The oppin eyis of sum do blind. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 41v If lawe seeme loathsome vnto thee, searche the secretes of phisicke. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding ⁋84 I was more loathsome in my own Eyes than was a Toad. 1748 D. Hume Ess. Moral & Polit. xix. 208 The Mind, unexercis'd, finds every Delight insipid and loathsome. 1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 93 Death can but loose a loathsome bond. 1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 259 He was free from the errors which make some of Rousseau's confessions loathsome. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] irk1303 wlatfula1387 squeamous1398 irksome1435 fastidiousa1535 loathsome1577 out of love (with)1577 squeamish1581 loathingc1595 sick1600 distastive1611 distastefula1616 detestant1650 distasting1654 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) iii. xv. [ix.] ii. 61 We, as lothsome of this abundance, or not liking of the plentie. 1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. xxiv. 34 a Thou mayest refresh thy loathsome and weeried minde. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1398 |
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