Synonyms for noisome
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Fetid — offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell
fetid, stinking, malodorous, foul, nauseating, loathsome, vile, foul-smelling, smelly, sickening, offensive, bad, disgusting, mawkish, funky, nauseous, queasy, mephitic, frowzy, abominable, obnoxious, detestable
2. Noxious — hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious
noxious, unwholesome, harmful, injurious, deleterious, pernicious, hurtful, baneful, mischievous, poisonous, detrimental, unhealthful, prejudicial, damaging, unhealthy, nocuous, insalubrious, pestiferous, baleful, ruinous, malevolent, destructive
Definitions
- adj. 1
Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
- adj. 2
Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.
Related words
- Word family
- noisomeness
- Other spellings
- noisesome
Choose the right word
noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- stinking The car is stinking. Have you been sleeping in it?
- nauseating Tom's obsequiousness towards John was nauseating.
- fetid The fetid smell came from the dead rat in the corner.
- noxious The old warehouse is no longer storing any noxious chemicals.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| noisome | steady | |
| stinking | rising | |
| nauseating | rising | |
| fetid | rising | |
| malodorous | steady | |
| noxious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 4 letters
- foul1, vile1
- 5 letters
- funky2, fetid2
- 6 letters
- smelly2, queasy2, frowzy
- 7 letters
- harmful2, hurtful2, noxious2, ruinous3, baleful2, mawkish2, baneful, nocuous
- 8 letters
- damaging3, nauseous2, stinking2, mephitic
- 9 letters
- offensive3, unhealthy3, poisonous3, obnoxious3, sickening3, loathsome2, injurious4
- 10 letters
- disgusting3, abominable5, pernicious3, malevolent4, nauseating4, detestable, malodorous
- 11 letters
- destructive3, detrimental4, mischievous3, deleterious5, prejudicial4, unwholesome, unhealthful3, pestiferous
- 12 letters
- insalubrious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (funky2 = 2 syllables).