What does loathsome mean?
Loathsome means Highly offensive; abominable, sickening..
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/ˈləʊð.səm/ · adjective
Highly offensive; abominable, sickening..
Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.
That grave but yesterday received one who was to have been his bride—his betrothed from childhood for whose sake he had been to far lands and gathered much wealth, but who had pined in his absence and died. He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.
Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Use loathsome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Loathsome means Highly offensive; abominable, sickening..
Common synonyms include wicked, vile, foul, revolting.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.
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